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En una noche fría, y lluviosa de primavera, una niña y su padre científico, participan en "La noche de salamandras" para seguir a cientos de estas salamandras moteadas mientras ellas se aventuran en una piscina primaveral para aparearse y poner huevos. En conjunto, el equipo de padre e hija, estudian a las salamandras en su completa metamorfósis anfibia, que culmina en la desaparición de las salamandras adultas en el bosque a finales del verano.

One cold, rainy spring night, a young girl and her scientist father participate in Salamander Night to follow hundreds of spotted salamanders as they venture into a vernal pool to mate and lay eggs. Together the father-child team studies the salamanders through their complete amphibian metamorphosis, culminating in the adult salamanders' disappearance into the woods in late summer. In easy-to-understand audio, the girl relates the tale through her journal.

Los animales más peligrosos de todo el mundo se juntan para el concurso del Animal Más Peligroso de Todos. Víboras, arañas, tiburones...¿Quién será el ganador? Veneno mortal, dientes grandes, cuernos afilados como hoja de afeitar, y patas que dan miedo son sólo unas cuantas maneras en que los animals matan. Los depredadores están hechos para matar. La presa simplemente se defiende a sí misma. Y sin embargo, ¡el animal mortal más inesperado ni siquiera intenta lastimar del todo!

¡La pequeña tortuga estaba perdida! Libre de su huevo, subió a un nuevo mundo, grande, hermoso. Perdido y solo, se preguntó - ¿A dónde realmente pertenezco? El oso le dijo que viviera en el bosque; la rana le dijo, "¡En el pantano!" Pero la tortuga no se sentía en casa. Ella necesitaba ayuda, pero ¿dónde la podría encontrar? La autora Susan Ring ayuda a la tortuga en esta historia caprichosa de autoexploración y de naturaleza, ¿Dónde debería estar la tortuga?

¡Mientras que la Pequeña Lagartija anda en busca de deliciosas hormigas para su desayuno, es atacada repentinamente por un cuervo! Pero ella tiene un truco para escaparse - ¡se desprende de su colita, y ésta se sigue moviendo! La Pequeña Lagartija está contenta de estar viva, pero extraña su brillante cola azul. Los lectores van a disfrutar pretendiendo con ella, probándose colita tras colita. La primera cola es muy suavecita.

Cada año miles de voluntarios protegen los nidos de las tortugas marinas en vías de extinción. Aunque los números realmente no se conocen, se estima que la supervivencia de las tortugas marinas desde la incubación hasta la adultez puede ser tan baja como 1 entre 1,000 o menos. Los integrantes del equipo de Tortugas hacen todo lo que pueden para incrementar las probabilidades de supervivencia para los huevos puestos en "su" playa. Ellos pasan su verano vigilando y cuidando los nidos.

¿Qué harías tu si encontraras unos huevos en tu cajón de arena? ¡Unete a Margarita cuando le pasa esto mismo! Ella decide convertirse en una niñera de tortugas para ayudar a los bebes terrapin diamantes. Ella los observa salir de sus huevos y luego los cría hasta que ellos se pueden defender por si mismos. Con la ayuda de los expertos, ella los deja ir en la bahía de donde pertenecen.

Tudley, una tortuga pintada que vive en un estanque, adopta los comportamientos de otros animales - ¡simplemente porque él no sabe que eso no puede hacerlo! Tudley vuela como un pájaro, canta como un saltamontes, brinca como una rana, y brilla como una luciérnaga. Él utiliza todos sus comportamientos especiales para ayudar a otros animales. ¿Le ayudarán a Tudley sus nuevos amigos cuando necesite ayuda?

Little turtle was lost! Free from his egg, he climbed out into a big, beautiful new world. Lost and alone, he wondered - where did he really belong? The bear told him to live in the woods; the frog said, "The swamp!" But turtle just didn't feel at home. He needed help, but where could he turn?

While Little Skink hunts yummy ants for breakfast, she is suddenly attacked by a crow! But she has a trick to escape - she snaps off her tail, and it keeps on wiggling! Little Skink is happy to be alive, but she misses her bright-blue tail. Listeners will enjoy pretending with her, trying on tail after tail. The first is too puffy-fluffy and another too stinky! Then one day Little Skink gets a big surprise...and she doesn't have to dream of tails anymore.

Tudley, a pond-living painted turtle, adopts other animals' behaviors - simply because he doesn't know he can't! He flies like a bird, sings like a katydid, hops like a frog, and glows like a firefly. All the while, he uses his special behaviors to help other animals. But will Tudley's new friends help him when he needs help?

They look for bits of chametz. They're good investigators. They're really just like you and me - except they're ALLIGATORS. A whimsical alligator family celebrates Passover.

Coyote Peterson's Brave Adventures: Wild Animals in a Wild World chronicles some of the wildest encounters Coyote Peterson has had over the course of his travels.

Cosmo the witch-cat has his paws full with his new baby brothers and sisters. Especially when the kittens accidentally get turned into frogs by the kindly Frog-Witch. But before she has a chance to magic them back, the Frog-Witch and all the frog-kittens are kidnapped by a sinister stranger with froggy plans. Can Cosmo come up with the purr-fect way to save the day... before it's too late?

It's science-project time, which is bad news for Hank. He loves doing science experiments, but writing a whole report is another story. Finally, Hank comes up with a science project: he'll take apart the cable box and figure out how it works. But Hank wasn't counting on his sister Emily's iguana laying 18 eggs inside the cable box! How will Hank finish his project now and will he ever be able to watch TV again?

Dave Sanchez, crime-fighting courier, has just been handed the scariest package he's ever seen, and it's addressed to none other than the dastardly Damien Black! Dave is well award that he should deliver the package, but when he sees the evil-looking potion inside, he knows he can't. So he comes up with a totally clever ruse to trick the villain and...it backfires. Big-time. Soon he's facing off with six-horned goats, terrifying tarantulas, a java-junkie monkey - and, of course, Damien Black!

Dave Sanchez's most despised teacher, a gleeful frog dissector named Ms. Veronica Krockle, is absent. Her students are psyched! But Sticky is suspicious. Especially when the substitute teacher turns out to be Damien Black--dastardly treasure hunter and master of disguise!

"Don't move a muscle!" shouts a strangely clad crook in the act of robbing a bank. But of course somebody does. That somebody is Dave Sanchez, and the crook is none other than the dastardly Damien Black, fresh out of prison and back to his villainous ways. But Dave and his gecko sidekick, Sticky, are on the case, and this time they have a trick up their sleeve - literally! It's an Aztec wristband that give its wearer powers like invisibility and flight. Asombroso, right?

Dave Sanchez is an average boy with an after-school job and a pet gecko named Sticky. All very normal - until the day Sticky talks! Sticky tells Dave a wild tale of a former life of crime, searching for Aztec gold with a treasure hunter named Damien Black, and of a magical Aztec wristband with shiny gold power ingots that will give the wearer super powers. Dave doesn’t believe a word - until Sticky shows him the wristband. But while Sticky managed to escape with the wristband, Damien Black has the power ingots. So the lizard and treasure hunter each have something the other wants...

Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee: Stinkbug pie. So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy as pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of a larger plot, one that involves the Rat Sisters, a riddling junkyard dog, and a vicious Gila monster named Herman. If Chet doesn't solve the case fast, the entire school could be humiliated. Worst of all, Chet might not get his fee. And Chet's hungry...