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Bug food

2010
Simple, repetitive text and detailed photographs introduce young readers to the insect world, describing how and what bugs eat.

Corn is maize

the gift of the Indians
1976
A simple description of how corn was discovered and used by the Indians and how it came to be an important food throughout the world.

What do you eat?

1986
A bird, cow, horse, cat, dog, rabbit, and pig tell what they eat.

Extreme gluttons

2005
Describes the ten biggest eaters in the animal world and compares their eating habits to those of humans.

Bugs for lunch =

Insectos para el amuerzo
2002
Rhyming bilingual text introduces bug-eating animals such as geckos, trout, or even people, includes additional facts about each creature.

American Indian contributions to the world

Food, farming, and hunting
2005
Explores Native American peoples' hunting, fishing, gathering, and farming practices, which helped sustain early European colonists and continue to play a role in feeding the world's population today.

Enduring harvests

native American foods and festivals for every season
1995

Plant-eating dinosaurs

2010
Informative text and color illustrations introduce readers to the plant-eating dinosaurs that once walked Earth. Their physical features are examined, and full-color illustrations and a glossary are included.

The hunting apes

meat eating and the origins of human behavior
1999
Argues that the desire for meat, and the eating, hunting, and sharing of meat, spurred the expansion of human brain size that led to the success of the human species, and describes the continuing social impact of the sharing of meat.

Dino dung

the scoop on fossil feces
2005
Describes how scientists study the coprolites, or fossilized feces, of dinosaurs and explains what coprolites can teach about dinosaurs and their world.

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