Face to Face with Leopards
Written by Dereck Joubert and Beverly Joubert
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
You’re crouched in the African brush, camera at the ready. You’re waiting on one of nature’s loners. It’s dark. It’s scary. Then silently, he appears; the ever-elusive leopard. You have seconds to capture on film this wonder of the wild, with its exotic spotted fur, so prized by hunters. National Geographic...
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Face to Face with Leopards
Written by Dereck Joubert and Beverly Joubert
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 32 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $25.90
You’re crouched in the African brush, camera at the ready. You’re waiting on one of nature’s loners. It’s dark. It’s scary. Then silently, he appears; the ever-elusive leopard. You have seconds to capture on film this wonder of the wild, with its exotic spotted fur, so prized by hunters. National Geographic...
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Tigress with Audio, Peggable
Written by Nick Dowson
Illustrated by Jane Chapman
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $9.99
"The zoology is as exciting as the story in this action-packed picture book. . . Thrilling science." — BOOKLISTIntroducing READ, LISTEN, & WONDER now in peggable, polybagged format.
This vibrant book-and-CD series brings the best of our Read and Wonder nature stories to life.
Each paperback title in the series includes a CD...
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Face to Face With Cheetahs
Written by Chris Johns and Elizabeth Carney
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $16.95
Chris Johns, Editor-in-Chief of
National Geographic magazine, brings you face to face with a family of cheetahs. The story begins in Okavango Delta in Botswanaas the cheetah mother hunts her prey and the photographer tracks the elusive cat. After watching the family for four months, he is rewarded when a cheetah...
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Face to Face With Cheetahs
Written by Chris Johns and Elizabeth Carney
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 32 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $25.90
Chris Johns, Editor-in-Chief of
National Geographic magazine, brings you face to face with a family of cheetahs. The story begins in Okavango Delta in Botswanaas the cheetah mother hunts her prey and the photographer tracks the elusive cat. After watching the family for four months, he is rewarded when a cheetah...
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African Critters
Written by Robert B. Haas
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $17.95
With a dramatic first-person narrative and close-up photography that brings kids into the thick of the action, National Geographic photographer Robert B. Haas gives us a rare glimpse into the struggles for survival in the African wilderness. We accompany him in his jeep, camera primed and ready to react. With stories...
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African Critters
Written by Robert B. Haas
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 96 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $26.90
With a dramatic first-person narrative and close-up photography that brings kids into the thick of the action, National Geographic photographer Robert B. Haas gives us a rare glimpse into the struggles for survival in the African wilderness. We accompany him in his jeep, camera primed and ready to react. With stories...
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Tigress with Audio
Written by Nick Dowson
Illustrated by Jane Chapman
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
"The zoology is as exciting as the story in this action-packed picture book. . . Thrilling science." — BOOKLISTIntroducing READ, LISTEN, & WONDER!
This vibrant book-and-CD series brings the best of our Read and Wonder nature stories to life.
Each paperback title in the series includes a CD that features:
* an engaging read-aloud...
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Face to Face with Lions
Written by Dereck Joubert
Photographed by Beverly Joubert
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $16.95
You look straight ahead. You try to breathe normally. You can smell the scent of the huge cat that is staring back. You are a cameraman. He is the King of Beasts. Your only thought is "I hope he has already eaten today." Let National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert...
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Face to Face with Lions
Written by Dereck Joubert
Photographed by Beverly Joubert
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 32 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $25.90
You look straight ahead. You try to breathe normally. You can smell the scent of the huge cat that is staring back. You are a cameraman. He is the King of Beasts. Your only thought is "I hope he has already eaten today." Let National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert...
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Tigress
Written by Nick Dowson
Illustrated by Jane Chapman
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $6.99
One of nature’s most magical sights emerges from camouflage in this evocative, informative story about a mother tiger in the wild."The zoology is as exciting as the story in this action-packed picture book. . . .Thrilling science." — BOOKLIST
In a lyrical narrative featuring many intriguing facts, Nick Dowson reveals the hidden...
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Tigress
Written by Nick Dowson
Illustrated by Jane Chapman
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.99
One of nature’s most magical sights emerges from camouflage in this evocative, informative story about a mother tiger in the wild.Moving smooth as a river, her stripy coat bright as fire, a mother tiger runs, then vanishes into the tall grass. With plate-sized paws and a pink nose the size of...
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Born Free
Written by Joy Adamson
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2000
Price: $14.95
There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when the
New York Times hailed it as a "fascinating and remarkable book,"
Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us.
Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub...
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