Pandas (National Geographic Kids: Absolute Expert)

by Ruth Strother (Author)

From adorable giant panda cubs to saving bamboo forests in China, get the latest giant panda insights and intel straight from the field from National Geographic explorer and conservationist Marc Brody. Ready to go on a search for giant pandas in mountainous bamboo forests? Travel to China to learn all about these black-and-white bears so YOU can become an absolute expert. Get up close with giant pandas in the wild and see where they make their home in the misty mountains. Learn about their bamboo diet and how they lumber through the mountains, searching for tasty bamboo shoots. Read about panda cubs and how their mothers take care of them. You'll learn about the giant panda's habitat and why preserving it is so vital for the panda's survival. On this journey to China's mountains, National Geographic Explorer Marc Brody will be your guide. He'll give you all the latest facts from the field and even share what it's like to put on a panda suit and hang out with furry panda cubs. You'll get to know these roly-poly bears in this cool book, filled with amazing images, special features, wacky trivia, and more.
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School Library Journal

Gr 3-7--Readers are treated to a comprehensive look at all things panda, ranging from facts about their biology and habitat to human impact and history. Encyclopedic information is divided into chapters and segments, similar to a textbook. The chapters are thorough and interspersed with visual time lines, crafts, and activities. Although the content is dense, the book's high-quality photos will maintain reader interest. Of special note is the photo-illustrated time line of a baby panda's first year, which is both adorable and informative. The glossary and index are both extensive, but further reading contains only four resources, three of which are websites. VERDICT The authors do a good job of leveraging the purely aesthetic appreciation of pandas to fully engage readers in the text. Perfect for school libraries, this book was made for research projects.-- Savannah Kitchens, Parnell Memorial Library, Montevallo, AL

Copyright 2019 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Ruth Strother
RUTH STROTHER is an experienced author and editor who has developed dozens of books about home improvement, pet care, cooking, and children's literature.

DR. SARAH STAMPS is a geophysicist at Virginia Tech's Geodesy and Tectonophysics Laboratory in the department of geosciences. She uses technology to understand the physical processes that drive Earth's volcanoes and earthquakes. Dr. Stamps and her team are working to answer questions such as: How and why does the Earth move? and Why do continents break apart? She also works to help advance geoscience in developing countries. She is an active member of National Science Foundation's EarthCube Science Committee, a group of geoscientists working to improve geoscience research by developing data systems, and is a member of the NSF UNAVCO Education and Community Engagement Committee, a nonprofit consortium that facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy (the study of Earth's shape, gravity field, and rotation).
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781426334313
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Publication date
August 20, 2019
Series
National Geographic Kids: Absolute Expert
BISAC categories
JNF051150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Zoology
JNF003020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Bears
JNF048000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Reference | General
Library of Congress categories
Giant panda

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