Tag: Sy Montgomery

The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America’s Largest Mammal (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery

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The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal

I was sent a copy of The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America’s Largest Mammal (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery   The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America’s Largest Mammal (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery Release Date: 2017-02-07 If you’ve never seen a lowland tapir, you’re not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil’s vast Pantanal (“the Everglades on steroids”) haven’t seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join…

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Mailbag Monday / In My Mailbox / Book Haul Jan 30th, 2017

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It’s a book haul, y’all! I swear I’m trying to get back into the swing of things around here. Trying to get a good schedule worked out for blogging and work and school. It gets overwhelming. Sometimes I have to step back and rethink my routines. I really feel like I am getting the hang of this “adulting “ thing now, though. Seriously. It is about time, right? Anyway, these are the books we have received to feature here on WeAreWordNerds over the last week. I hope you take a…

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The Great White Shark Scientist by Sy Montgomery

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The Great White Shark Scientist by Sy Montgomery

I was sent a copy of The Great White Shark Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery   The Great White Shark Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery Release Date: 2016-06-07 Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, is investigating a controversial possibility: Might Cape Cod’s waters serve as a breeding ground for the great white shark, the largest and most feared predatory fish on Earth?        Aboard the OCEARCH research vessel, Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen report on this thrilling…

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Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery

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Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery

I was sent a copy of Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery   Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery Release Date: 2016-05-03 On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss. Now, on an island refuge with the last of the species, New Zealand’s National…

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Book of the Day: The Octopus Scientists by Sy Montgomery

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I was sent a copy of The Octopus Scientists (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery The Octopus Scientists (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery Release Date: 2015-05-26 With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change…

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