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2) Mama, why?
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A sleepy polar bear cub asks his mother questions about the night sky as he gets ready to go to sleep.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1970
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Description
Many African stories are called "Spider stories". This book is about how that came to be. And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky god. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky and went to bargain with the Sky god. The price the Sky god asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet who-stings-like-fire...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the Arctic Sea. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first...
8) Blue sky
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Throughout the day and into the night, a boy and his family observe the constantly changing sky.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure, giving her an unrivaled perspective of the entire conflict. As the representative of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Kirkuk in 2003 and then the political advisor...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Sunrises and lightning storms, rainbows and volcanoes, meteors and fireflies-these beautiful, and sometimes frightening, events that light up the sky might seem like magic. But there is a scientific explanation for each natural phenomenon. Find out the science behind the magic in this beautiful and enlightening nonfiction picture book."--
12) Picture the sky
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The sky can often tell different stories: in the clouds having a parade, in the stars blanketing the night, and in our imagination. Every hour, every day, in every season, the sky is different. In this companion to Picture a Tree, award-winning creator Barbara Reid offers a lyrical story using plasticine relief illustrations to explore the wondrous and ever-changing sky."--Amazon.com.
13) Skygazing
Author
Publisher
Welbeck Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
" With a double cover, one half of the book is focused on the sky during the day, while if you turn the book over the other half focuses on the sky at night. Inside, readers can discover all about airborne wildlife, weird weather, aircraft, stars and constellations, and their mythology. What do you see when you look up at the sky? It may seem like a big, empty space, but it's busier than you think. From clouds and stars, to birds, planes and everything...
14) One sky
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Look up in wonder at the sky! In this companion to You are light and My favorite color, Caldecott honor-winning author-illustrator Aaron Becker delivers a stunning visual meditation on the majesty of our miraculous world"--Page [4] of cover.
17) Little Night
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
At the end of a long day, Mother Sky helps her playful daughter, Little Night, to get ready for bed.
19) Ancient skies
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
With breath-taking CGI, beautiful landscape footage and some of the world's most important astronomical artifacts, Ancient Skies looks at the cosmos through the eyes of our ancestors, charting our changing views of the cosmos throughout history.
20) Sky songs
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1984
Description
Fourteen poems about the various aspects of the sky such as the moon, clouds, stars, storms, and sunsets.
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