Details from the painting "The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark," by Jan Bruegel, present twenty-two different animals with their names in English, French, German, Italian, and Japanese.

**Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly** WINNER: Writer's Digest Self-Published Award, Children's Picture Books FINALIST: NextGen Indie Publishing Award, Juvenile Nonfiction. The oldest bird in the world, documented with banding, is Wisdom, the Midway Albatross. She was on Midway when the Japanese Tsunami hit and this is her amazing story of survival of manmade and natural disasters for over 60 years. She has survived the dangers of living wild, plastic pollution, longline fishing, lead poisoning, and the Japanese earthquake. At 60, she's still laying eggs and hatching chicks. It's a story of survival and hope amidst the difficulties of life. In 2013, she hatched a new chick at the age of 62. The chick is named Mana'olana, Hawaiian for Hope. Kitty Harvill's portraits make this a biography in text and art.

Antarctica - vast, cold and mysterious. This frozen continent is full of incredible stories. Here you can discover incredible wildlife, awe-inspiring landscapes and adventurous scientists and explorers. Join author Karen Romano Young on a trip across Antarctica, hanging out with people and animals and learning about how this special place is changing, and what it means for our planet. Hang out with some of the coolest creatures on earth above and below the ice as you meet emperor penguins, killer whales and elephant seals. Suit up for the cold and explore some of the harshest landscapes on earth, following in the footsteps of brave explorers. And learn about how scientists survive here today and what they do all day - from studying climate change to investigating ice cores almost a million years old to learn about the history - and future - of our planet.

This book is jam-packed with more stickers than there are warts on a warthog. You'll discover beasts that growl, prowl, claw and roar and have all sorts of fun sticking them throughout the book. But wait, there's more! You can also: - Design your own beaver dam - Stick ants on the armadillos' tongues - Play a game of Guess Whose Paw Prints?

Like the other 13 books in this series, this one asks and answers 20 questions, each with a large photo and a humorous drawing by illustrator Steve Weaver. Did you know that penguins have a good reason to wear a tuxedo? Have you ever wondered whether they can fly? What they eat? Whether they have knees? Did you know that penguins don't live at the North Pole? "Those Perky Penguins "will explain all the questions you've asked yourself as you've watched these funny, perky little birds waddle around at the zoo and elegantly fly in the water under the ice on screen.