Animals & Nature Audiobooks

How Are Rainbows Made?: and Other Questions About Earth

How the mother bird helps her baby chicks

Highlights For Children (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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How Bats "See" at Night

By studying bats and their special use of sound scientists solved the mystery of how bats can fly at night.

Amy S. Hansen, Noelle Poulet (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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How Bats Slurp at Night

An explanation of the scientific process German scientists went through to answer the question: "How do bats drink at night?"

Alison Pearce Stevens, Ph.D. (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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How Brainy Are Monkeys?

A scientist discovers that howler monkeys can tell how big another troop is by listening to their collective calls (or howls).

Alison Pearce Stevens, Ph.D. (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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How Dinosaurs Took Flight

Would you believe it if I told you that every bird you see-even the smallest hummingbird-is a dinosaur? Well, that's what many scientists now believe! Follow along as scientists examine ancient fossils and pose new theories on how prehistoric dinosaurs evolved into today's modern birds. Packed with exciting stories of unearthing ancient fossils and tales of what early feathered dinosaurs might have looked like, this book will have imaginations running wild. From the very first birds, with only tiny dino-fuzz covering their bodies, to the mystery of how dinosaurs finally took to the air, listeners will explore the startling connection between the birds they encounter every day and their very distant relatives-the dinosaurs. Christopher Sloan works for National Geographic and has written several children's books on scientific topics.

Christopher Sloan (Author), Jonathan Hogan (Narrator)

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How Do Astronauts Use Jet Packs in Space?: and Other Questions About Space

A zookeeper helps to move Skylar, a Sumatran tiger, from the Dallas Zoo in Texas to the San Francisco Zoo in California.

Highlights For Children (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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How Do Basketballs Bounce?: And Other Questions About How Stuff Works

Dr. McComb wanted to learn more about how African elephants communicate but instead she discovered the importance of grandmothers in the lives of elephants.

Highlights For Children (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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How Do Chickens Not Crush Their Eggs?: and Other Questions About Birds

Article about a black bear named Columbus who traveled more than 10 miles amongst people in Washington state before being captured and moved to the wild.

Highlights For Children (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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How Do Cows Produce Milk?: and Other Questions About Animals

Urban kit foxes have adapted to living in cities and are even doing better than their country cousins.

Highlights For Children (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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How Do Dinosaurs Choose Their Pets?

Come along on a playful romp as dinosaurs choose outrageous pets, shocking their parents in this fantastically comic new addition to Yolen and Teague's bestselling, award-winning series. "Can I keep it? It's so cute!" Brimming with laugh-aloud humor, enormous dinosaur children surprise their parents by bringing home a wild menagerie of highly unusual pets! What would happen if your child walked in the door with a pet tiger? Or an elephant, boa constrictor, zebra, or kangaroo? Would you smile? Perfect for every child who has ever loved or yearned for a pet, this new uproarious book delights readers of all ages as they peek into the mischievous world of Jane Yolen and Mark Teague's bestselling dinosaur series. In the end, children and dinosaurs both learn which animals make the most practical pets, and the best places to find them-- including shelters and pet stores. Wonderfully silly, here is the perfect book for little dinosaurs who may soon have a furry, feathery, or scaly new friend in the house. If you were as big as the dinosaurs in this book, what pet would be your first choice?

Jane Yolen (Author), Jane Yolen (Narrator)

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How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read?

America's favorite dinosaurs romp and roar as they soak books in the bathtub, throw them, and finally learn how to enthusiastically -- and carefully -- read them...with Mama and Papa at bedtime. Get ready to laugh at this lighthearted, heartwarming, and funny approach to books! Children sometimes feel the task of learning to read is overwhelming, but the winning combination of rhyme and illustrations here provide a perfect way to present the subject in a comical, engaging, and nonjudgmental way. The contrast of enormous dinosaurs in kid-sized bedrooms (with human parents) adds irresistible humor as families explore the do's and don'ts of reading. Both practical and engaging, this book shows dinosaurs getting into all sorts of reading-related trouble! But of course, in the end, the dinosaurs learn how to carefully handle their books, read out loud, and read a lot! Each book in the endlessly popular How Do Dinosaurs series is a combination of childish antics followed by a gentle lesson -- with over 14.5 million books in print. This book, the twelfth, ends with pages designed to get your own little dinosaur excited about learning to read -- especially this word: Dinosaur!

Jane Yolen (Author), Jane Yolen (Narrator)

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How Do Flowers Get Their Scent?: and Other Questions About Plants

Beekeeping is this 15-year-old's hobby, and she has won awards for her honey products.

Highlights For Children (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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