Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City (A Graphic Novel)

Join two best friends--a mole and vole--on their everyday expeditions to find beautiful plants, meet new animals, and learn more about the world all around them in this nonfiction graphic novel. Each day, Mole and Vole venture out into the world - never forgetting their nature journal! - to see what they can find in their own backyard. From pigeons and jumping spiders to swamp milkweed and maple trees, these two explorers get to know every part of their local environment. But after an accidental move from the country to the city, Mole and Vole worry that everything will be different. As they explore, they discover plants to look at and animals to meet in their new home as well. &nbsp; The story of these two best friends brings to life a nonfiction adventure of finding wonder in nature everywhere - no matter where you live. This book concludes with fun activities for kids to do at home.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Children's Books

Mosco, Rosemary

Hu, Binglin

Comics & Graphic Novels

Random House Graphic

Join two best friends--a mole and vole--on their everyday expeditions to find beautiful plants, meet new animals, and learn more about the world all around them in this nonfiction graphic novel. Each day, Mole and Vole venture out into the world - never forgetting their nature journal! - to see what they can find in their own backyard. From pigeons and jumping spiders to swamp milkweed and maple trees, these two explorers get to know every part of their local environment. But after an accidental move from the country to the city, Mole and Vole worry that everything will be different. As they explore, they discover plants to look at and animals to meet in their new home as well. &nbsp; The story of these two best friends brings to life a nonfiction adventure of finding wonder in nature everywhere - no matter where you live. This book concludes with fun activities for kids to do at home.

Product Description 
Warning -- this book contains top-secret information about butterflies! Prepare to be shocked and grossed out by this hilarious and totally true picture book introduction to a fascinating insect.\nButterflies are beautiful and quiet and gentle and sparkly . . . but that's not the whole truth. Butterflies can be GROSS. And one butterfly in particular is here to let everyone know! Talking directly to the reader, a monarch butterfly reveals how its kind is so much more than what we think. Did you know some butterflies enjoy feasting on dead animals, rotten fruit, tears and even poop? Some butterflies are loud, like the Cracker butterfly. Some are stinky -- the smell scares predators away. Butterflies can be sneaky, like the ones who pretend to be ants to get free babysitting.\nThis hilarious and refreshing book with silly and sweet illustrations explores the science of butterflies and shows that these insects are not the stereotypically cutesy critters we often think they are -- they are fascinating, disgusting, complicated and amazing creatures. 
 Review 
One of CCBC’s Best Books for Kids and Teens, Fall 2021 — Starred Pick\n“A proboscis-in-cheek introduction to butterflies that will appeal to reluctant readers and bug enthusiasts alike.” — 
STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews“Mosco’s written text is informative, playful, and humorous.” 
—CM Magazine“Jacob Souva's artwork adds to the hilarity of this resource.” 
—Library Matters“Cute, funny, entertaining, and educational, this book will be enjoyed by insect lovers of all ages.” 
 —Calgary Herald 
 About the Author 
ROSEMARY MOSCO makes books, articles, cartoons and graphics that connect people with the natural world. Her nature comics were the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit and are collected in a book that was a 2019 ALA Great Graphic Novel for Teens. She co-wrote the 
New York Times bestseller 
The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid. She speaks at birding festivals and nature centers and writes for Audubon.\nJACOB SOUVA has a beautiful wife, two amazing sons and resides in a small countryside community in upstate New York. He loves to make kids laugh and think with his illustrations. Jacob sketches constantly and finishes his work digitally, placing a lot of emphasis on simple shapes, color and lots and lots of texture. Jacob has illustrated several picture books including 
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings and 
 Pedro's Pan.

Butterflies Are Pretty ... Gross! (Nature's Top Secrets)

Animals

Tundra Books

Warning -- this book contains top-secret information about flowers! Prepare to be shocked and weirded out by this hilarious and totally true picture book introduction to some of nature's strangest plants.\nFlowers are beautiful. They have bright colors, soft petals and sweet nectar. Yum! But that's not the whole truth. Flowers can be WEIRD . . . and one bee is here to let everyone know! Talking directly to the reader, a bee reveals how flowers are so much stranger than what we think. Did you know that there are some flowers that only bloom in the nighttime? Some flowers are spooky, and look like ghosts, or bats, or a monster's mouth. And while most flowers smell good, there are some that smell like dead meat, or even horse poop!\nThis hilarious and refreshing book with silly and sweet illustrations explores the science of flowers and shows that these plants are not always stereotypically pretty and harmless as we often think they are -- they are fascinating, disgusting, complicated and amazing.\nFrom School Library Journal\nPreS-Gr 2—A bee shares its favorite things about flowers in a fun scrapbook format. Using wordplay ("Bee honest" and "bee-lieving") and puns galore, a bee explains how flowers are both wonderful and weird. In fact, flowers are opposites in many ways: they can be big or small, pretty or ugly, edible or poisonous. The informative words are accompanied by pretty textured illustrations, such as a smiling monkey orchid. The text is center formatted with important points enlarged, in bold, or in bold italics. Generous white space will also help emerging readers, who will especially enjoy how the bee's written asides add flavor. For example, one picture is labeled "Bee Butt LOL" and clarified with "not me." Most of the illustrations take up the full spread, with pretend snapshots framed with tape. Some of the stranger flowers in the book are highlighted at the back with more details, but this isn't a book for research. Those who enjoy the playful narrators of Paul Meisel's My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis and Bethany Barton's I'm Trying to Love Spiders will find a lot to appreciate here. VERDICT Both educational and humorous, this is highly recommended.—Elissa Cooper

Flowers Are Pretty ... Weird! (Nature's Top Secrets)

Humor

Product Description 
Discover new worlds with Science Comics! Readers can't get enough of this nonfiction graphic novel series, so we're delivering three fan-favorite titles in an attractive and affordable boxed set!This deluxe boxed set includes a full-color, double-sided Science Comics poster as well as three fan-favorite titles: Science Comics: Solar System, Science Comics: The Brain, and Science Comics: Robots and Drones. 
 About the Author 
Rosemary Mosco is a science writer and artist, and she’s passionate about sharing her love for the natural world. She writes and draws the science webcomic Bird and Moon and makes the urban nature webcomic Your Wild City in collaboration with fellow First Second author Maris Wicks. Mosco has served in communications roles for nonprofits such as Mass Audubon and NPS, written for nature publications, and led unique nature walks. She holds an MS from UVM’s Field Naturalist and Ecological Planning Program. If she could explore any place in the solar system, Mosco would travel to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Then she’d come back home and visit her favorite nature preserves on Earth, where she'd observe all the strange creatures and think about the possibilities for life on other planets.\nTory Woollcott is a cartoonist, writer and literacy educator & advocate who lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband and her minor Internet celebrity dog, Reginald Barkley. Her first graphic novel, Mirror Mind, was an autobiographical memoir about growing up with dyslexia. She has since written and drawn other autobio comics, fairy tales for kids, and a sci-fi audio drama. Tory loves brains and all the fun stuff that comes out of them!\nMairghread Scott is an animation and comic book writer. Her animation includes Marvel’s 
Guardians of the Galaxy, Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors, and more. Her published books include 
Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy, 
Transformers: Till All Are One, 
 Transformers: Windblade, and 
Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special #1, as well as her graphic novels with First Second, 
The City on the Other Side and 
Science Comics: Robots and Drones.\nJon Chad is obsessed with giant robots, screen-printing, and bookmaking. Chad has been commissioned by Cartoon Network to make artist books based on shows like 
Adventure Time and 
The Amazing World of Gumball. He is the author of 
 Leo Geo, 
Science Comics: Volcanoes, the illustrator of 
Science Comics: Solar System, and the creator of the multi-format immersion narrative 
BAD MASK. He also drew the art package for 
The Jetsons pinball machine for The Pinball Company and Spooky Pinball.\nAlex Graudins is the cartoonist behind 
Science Comics: The Brain and 
History Comics: The Great Chicago Fire. Currently hiding out in li’l Rhode Island, she holds a BFA in Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts and has done work for sites like The Nib and CollegeHumor. She has a penchant for memoirs and narratives that tackle the topics of anxiety and friendship.

Science Comics Boxed Set: Solar System, The Brain, and Robots and Drones

Scott, Mairghread

Woollcott, Tory

First Second

If animals could speak (and text and post selfies, and review items on Amazon), what would they say? Find out in this hilarious collection of imagined digital encounters, based on real animal intel and facts. Get in on the conversation! In Critter Chat, every habitat has a group chat. In the African savanna, a lion (screenname: Just_Lion_Around) declares his territory with a text-based ROAR! Meanwhile, zebra and cheetah send eyeroll emojis. In the North American suburbs, a carpet beetle texts the family dog, reassuring him that his humans will return--eventually. Among surprising, laugh-out-loud conversations like these, you'll find tons of parody social media posts from all your favorites in the animal kingdom, including Instagram-style inspirational posts and silly Yelp reviews. An adorable dumbo octopus posts a selfie (#FeelingCute). And a frustrated narwhal reviews an extra-long toothbrush. (It's still too short--of course!) Inside, there are also plenty of fascinating nonfiction features that give readers the scoop on actual animal communication (Did you know that white rhinos communicate with poop? It's true!), and real-life animal influencers who are making waves online and in our hearts. In a conveniently portable size, this handy little treasure can be carried anywhere, for a good laugh anytime! It's the perfect book for reluctant readers, animal lovers, and yucksters young and old. For more fun and fact-filled animal books from National Geographic Kids, don't miss out on Weird But True! Animals, Just Joking: Funny Animals, and Nerdlet: Animals!

Critter Chat: What if Animals Used Social Media?

National Geographic Kids

Amusing science cartoons about the natural world including animal dating profiles, wildlife wine pairings, threat displays of completely non-threatening animals, why hammerhead sharks have hammer heads, and much more. Birding is My Favorite Video Game is a collection of fun, quasi-educational comics combining weird science, cute visuals, sweet wit, and a strong environmental message. Based on the popular webcomic Bird and Moon, this collection brings facts about birds, bees, and insects to life in the quirkiest, most wonderful way.

Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World from Bird and Moon

Comic Strips

Andrews McMeel Publishing

New York Times bestseller! The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is a thrilling expedition to 100 of the most surprising, mysterious, and weird-but-true places on earth. For curious kids, this is the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime—and see how faraway countries have more in common than you might expect! Hopscotch from country to country in a chain of connecting attractions: Explore Mexico’s glittering cave of crystals, then visit the world’s largest cave in Vietnam. Peer over a 355-foot waterfall in Zambia, then learn how Antarctica’s Blood Falls got their mysterious color. Or see mysterious mummies in Japan and France, then majestic ice caves in both Argentina and Austria. As you climb mountains, zip-line over forests, and dive into oceans, this book is your passport to a world of hidden wonders, illuminated by gorgeous art.

The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid

Thuras, Dylan

Atlas Obscura

Action & Adventure

Workman Publishing Company

Product Description 
Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun.\nFact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with 
The Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, readers can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts illustrated field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk). Anatomy and identification, from Birmingham Roller to the American Giant Runt to the Scandaroon. Birder issues, like what to do if you find a baby pigeon stranded in the park. And our lively shared story together, including all the things we’ve taught them—Ping-Pong, for example. “Rats with wings?” Think again. 
 Pigeons coo, peck and nest all over the world, yet most of us treat them with indifference or disdain. So Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist (and co-author of 
The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid) is here to give the pigeon's image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching.\nReview 
"Mosco...has written the most perfect of popular science titles, one that teaches readers everything about a topic in an accessible, funny, and charming manner. A must-read for bird lovers and urban wildlife watchers." 
 — 
Booklist, STARRED review \n“This book will change what you think about pigeons! With loads of eye-opening pigeon science, delivered in playful and engaging style by Rosemary Mosco's text and illustrations, 
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching will help you gain a whole new appreciation of these smart, savvy, and adaptable birds whose lives are so intertwined with ours.” 
 — 
David Allen Sibley, author of 
The Sibley Guide to Birds\n“We scorn pigeons for their commonness, but their ubiquity speaks to their talents. Past civilizations domesticated them and brought them wherever they went, for pigeons were loved and prized—as messengers, as producers of fertilizer, as meat on the plate. With her trademark wit and artistic charms, Mosco gives us a hundred reasons to rekindle the love affair. 
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching is part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun!” 
 — 
Mary Roach, 
New York Times bestselling author of 
Stiff and 
Grunt\n"So joyful that it’s almost effervescent, A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching will convert even the grumpiest pigeon skeptics into being, at the very least, pigeon-curious. Readers will never hear the cooing in a city park or watch a preening flock of pigeons the same way again." 
 — 
Foreward Reviews \n“A gifted communicator, Rosemary Mosco makes every science subject both fascinating and fun—as they should be. This delightful look at the world of pigeons is a treasure.” 
 — 
Kenn Kaufman, editor of 
Kaufman Field Guide 
s\n“ 
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching is my favorite kind of book: one that teaches you everything you could want to know about a single fascinating topic in a way that is accessible, charming, and hilarious.” 
 — 
Ryan North, 
New York Times bestselling author of 
How to Invent Everything\n"Sparkling, witty prose, loaded with relatable pop-culture references and enhanced with charming cartoons, 
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching is a seductive draw into the multilayered world of pigeons. This little book will sneak up and drop a load of solid ornithology on the unsuspecting reader." 
 — 
Julie Zickefoose, author of 
Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay\nAbout the Author \nRosemary Mosco is a science communicator, acclaimed cartoonist, and speaker on all things bird. She's the creator of the webcomic Bir

A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

New York Times bestseller, now in paperback!\nThe Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is a thrilling expedition to 100 of the most surprising, mysterious, and weird-but-true places on earth.\nFor curious kids, this is the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime—and see how faraway countries have more in common than you might expect! Hopscotch from country to country in a chain of connecting attractions: Explore Mexico’s glittering cave of crystals, then visit the world’s largest cave in Vietnam. Peer over a 355-foot waterfall in Zambia, then learn how Antarctica’s Blood Falls got their mysterious color. Or see mysterious mummies in Japan and France, then majestic ice caves in both Argentina and Austria.\nAs you climb mountains, zip-line over forests, and dive into oceans, this book is your passport to a world of hidden wonders, illuminated by gorgeous art.

Workman Kids

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Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City (A Graphic Novel)

Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City (A Graphic Novel)

Butterflies Are Pretty ... Gross! (Nature's Top Secrets)

Flowers Are Pretty ... Weird! (Nature's Top Secrets)

Science Comics Boxed Set: Solar System, The Brain, and Robots and Drones

Critter Chat: What if Animals Used Social Media?

Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World from Bird and Moon

The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid

A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird

The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid