Penny, Malcolm

Examines various aspects of the world's third largest ocean, covering its geographic features, plant and animal life, human inhabitants, natural resources, and environmental problems.

Examines how animals build homes by digging, weaving grass, piling up sticks, or using other materials.

Examines how animals of the land, the sea, and the air move in their surroundings.

Describes how food chains work and looks at examples from a small garden to a rain forest.

Photographs and text follow a rhino calf as it takes its first steps in the African bush.

Describes the habits and behavior of giant pandas at different stages of their lives, as well as threats to their continued survival.

Describes the habits and behavior of polar bears during the different stages of their lives, as well as threats they face and efforts to protect them.

A simple introduction to bears, how they live, why they are becoming endangered, and what is being done to reverse this trend.

Discusses the human uses of the sea (source of food, means of travel), the human effect on the sea, and the protection of the sea and its treasures.

Describes the growth and development of various plants.