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1) In the pond
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"What is a pond? Learn about ponds and what kinds of plants and animals live there."--
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Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Every year when Moonlight Pond freezes over, a talent contest takes place deep in the woods. Ducks dance, mice perform. But there is one animal that never competes. Toad watches the talent show from behind his rock, careful to keep himself hidden. Because Toad doesn't have a special talent---or so he thinks! When Toad is finally discovered, he slips on the icy pond and realises he does have an incredible talent...ice-skating! This hilarious, heart-warming,...
4) On Duck Pond
Author
Series
On bird hill and beyond volume 2
Publisher
The Cornell Lab Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A young boy and his dog on a serene pond that erupts in a cacophony of birds, frogs, turtles, and other creatures.
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When a flock of ducks arrives at an unsuspecting turtle's pond, the turtle is mistaken for a green duck and can't seem to convince anyone otherwise. Can the turtle find a way to take back the pond and get some peace and quiet once more?"--
6) Ruby & Rufus
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Series
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Ruby and Rufus love the water. They play on the pond every day! But what will they do when the pond turns to ice?
9) At the pond
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Witty poems and luminous illustrations celebrate a day at the pond.
10) Duck says don't!
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When Goose goes on vacation, Duck finds out that being in charge and keeping the pond the happiest pond in the world is much too hard.
12) Pond
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"A group of friends discovers a neglected pond in the woods and decides to fix it up together."--
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Series
Beneath the trees volume 3
Publisher
Magnetic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
At the foot of an old tree in which an owl lives, and at the bottom an old frog, there is a pond. Every day, young forest animals come to play with a ball in the water and they play with a basketball hoop. The owl and the frog are tired of always hearing the sound of the ball hitting the basket before falling into the water. However, one evening, the owl finds himself trying his hand at a few baskets in secret and the frog comes close to surprising...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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"David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters. To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that's what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Everglades in order...
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx—whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth—comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit...
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Chelsea Green Publishing
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coalition of “Beaver Believers”―including...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In Brendan Flaherty's debut novel, two estranged brothers must confront the violence of the past when they find out a pond where they played as children will be dredged, threatening to reveal a long-hidden secret. After some traumatic teenage years in rural Connecticut, Cale and Ambrose Casey had nothing left to say to each other. Cale ran off to Hawaii to sell luxury real estate. Ambrose stayed behind and built up his construction company. Neither...
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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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"The book begins with how lakes are born; subsequent chapters look at crater lakes, dams; the Carolina bays; oriented lakes; subglacial lakes; and salt lakes. The middle chapters look at the physical properties of lakes. The final chapters examine the ways in which lakes die, either through human or natural processes. In sum, the book constitutes a thorough "biography" of lakes. This is a solid, entertaining work of popular scientific writing on a...