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A Note to the Parents
This comprehensive encyclopedia about the world of animals is specially geared for the active preschool learner Winnie the Pooh and his friends will introduce your child to the wide variety of creatures that exist inside and out
of the Hundred Acre Wood Pooh and his pals will gently encourage your
oung discoverer to make real life connections between the animals in this
book and himself The chapters of this book are organized to help young
children learn how to recognize the things animals have in common with
each other
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Throughout this book your child will find their favorite characters from the Hundred Acre Wood on hand to guide them through each section’ Each character brings his unique voice to the world of amazing discovery that’s
: Pooh
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Pooh shares his sense of wonder and explorations of the world of animals/nature throughout the book
Tigger
Tigger shares amazing facts about some pretty Tiggerific elements of animals/nature
Piglet invites your child apply their newfound knowledge about animals/nature with beautifully
iIlustrated search and find pages
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“If only I could fly,” Pooh thought Soon he was knocking on the door of
Owl’s house :
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Owl and Pooh got busy Owl told Pooh to bend TẾ
his knees
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SAE EET Pooh looked confused “But Owl, I have
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~ Owl looked at Pooh i | “Ive got it,” he finally said, “You're a pooh, not a bird!” :
Trang 6“Owl, wha† ¡s a bird?”
A bird is an animal
Birds come in so many different colors!
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“Wha† makes an animal
a bird?”
@ All birds have feathers
@ Every bird has a beak On some birds these are called bills
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Hello, Woodpecker!
“Eeyore, listen to that woodpecker tap on that tree!” “| hope it doesn’t tap on my house next, Pooh!” —=Ì <2 F Knock, knock! Who's there? Baby woodpeckers!
Just They are called nestlings Their mommy and
Hatched! daddy took turns sitting on the eggs It took
sixteen days for them to hatch
Growing Hungry nestlings cry Their mommy feeds them
Up! yummy worms Their daddy sleeps in the nest at night
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| Woodpeckers live in forests They tap, tap, tap at
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tree bark That makes a hole in the tree
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Who are these fuzzy babies? They are owls Baby owls are called owlets The fluffy baby feathers are called down Owlets are
hatched with their eyes closed The owlets are eight weeks old now They
are losing their down and getting their grown-up feathers It is time to fly away! The owlets have grown up Now they can take care of themselves
Sh-h-h! Owls fly very quietly through their forest home Their wings move silently in the night air That is when they search for food
Trang 12Sapa Hello, Chicken! “Here, chick, chick, chick!” This chick is hatching! It was snug in its egg
Just for twenty-one days Now, little by little, Hatched! " it pecks away at the shell It uses a
k3 special tooth called an egg tooth
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Its egg tooth has fallen off It doesn’t need it
Growing anymore! Look! Yellow, soft, and fuzzy, this chick
Up! is one week old The chicks have grown new feathers What color are they now?
Chickens Chickens live on farms The mommy
at Home! chicken is the hen The daddy
is the rooster The loud rooster C) calls us, “Cock-a-doodle-doo!”
Trang 14Hello, Hummingbird!
“Look, Piglet That hummingbird is vsing its beak just like a straw!” Lả i A , f i se j LẺ af Lat JS, J ‘Hummingbirds are the smal mes pe the Fl cŠ LÊN, + T ey fags kee , j 5 a ` ar! * sete h » iy | Wy 7///
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Trang 16Bip beak! Big beak! —
A toucan’s beak looks like
it must be very heavy
But it isn’t Toucans’
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Some birds eat bees and they don’t even get stung
These birds are called bee-eaters They rub the bee in the ground first This takes off the stinger Then they gulp it down And that’s Tiggerific! Here is a little bird that doesn’t fly It is called a kiwi These birds live in forests in
A pelican has a pouch below its beak
The pouch can stretch and stretch to hold lots and lots of fish A pelican’s pouch can hold more fish than the pelican’s belly can!
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way, they willtake turns ~ 3 & being the leader That’s
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New Zealand Can you walk backward? Tiggers can And hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward Look, there goes one now!
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Hatched! This nest is hidden in the tall grass Let’s peek — inside it Look at the baby ducks! They are called ducklings How many ducklings do you see?
“Quack! Quack!” These ducklings, are a
Growin 2 few days old They show their mommy Up! how they can already swim But she
P? must keep a careful eye on them
Ducks
th ' Splish, splash! Ducks love the water Can ad tients you see the duck’s feet? Their feet are
made for swimming They are called OF ie webbed feet
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Trang 22Hello, Penguin!
“Eeyore, that penguin looks like if’s wearin a tuxedo! Maybe it’s going fo a party!”
“If there’s a party, | wouldn’t know about it, Pooh.”
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A baby penguin is called a chick It took two
Just months for this fuzzy chick to hatch Can you see
Hatched! how its daddy keeps it warm? ,
Growin What’s for dinner? Fresh fish from the ocean! túi ỗ The chick’s mommy and daddy take turns
re feeding it Pen gu ins
at Home! Br-r-r! Some penguins live in Antarctica They waddle on the ice They slide on the snow
ớ) They dive deep into the cold water đu
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Hello, Ostrich!
“Piglet, that ostrich is running so fast, | need
to sit down and res†!" at — i ute
What big eggs! Each one is twenty times ud? bigger than a chicken egg All the mommy
ostriches lay their |
Hatched! DP eggs in one big nest &
One by one, off the baby ostriches go They Growin follow their mommy They are only a few weeks
Up! old But they were born ready to run
Ostriches Many ostriches live in Africa Unlike
at Home! most birds, they do not live in trees
Why not? Ostriches cannot fly! They
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( 24" are too heavy An ostrich is 90,000 times heavier than a hummingbird!
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Why do owls turn
their heads so far
_ aFound? SG cannot move their
eyes from side to side the
way people do So, to see
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Can "penguins fly?
fly in the sky they sure can swim Penguin: fast and graceful under the
water
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sounds around them Th ===
re eat what they hear
Si ice many people have
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Why is a peacock’s tai] so
big and colorfu|?
It is only the male peacock that has such a fancy tail Male peacocks
use their tails to show off A male will fan out his tail to show a female how beautiful he is Do ducks get cold in the water? No Ducks have special feathers to protect them This keeps the water from getting to their skin
underneath Ducks also have soft, fluffy down feathers to keep them warm _
Why are flamingos pink?
Flamingos are pink because of the food they eat The teeny, tiny shrimp they scoop up in
— the water make their feathers turn pink!
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Hello, Parrot!
“Parrots, Pooh, are very smart birds I'd like to have a chat with that fellow!”
it 4 for you here, Ow]!”
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Just These baby parrots just hatched Where are Hatched! 4 their feathers? Like many birds, parrots
i 8 are born without them
Look at their feathers now! The parrots Growing have grown a lot in just one
Up! month They clean and groom one another
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“Squawk, squawk!” Noisy parrots call to one P ome: another in the tropical forests Parrots like to
be with their friends Sometimes eighty or mot giity \ live together
Trang 30=>" Hello, Peacock! “Now that’s what | call a tail, Pooh!” 5 lll(lliflllll))¡;,¡
These brown baby peafowl are called peachicks It takes two years for peacocks to get their beautiful tail feathers But just a few hours after hatching, they walk around, showing off their little brown tails
Just
When peachicks are hungry, they peck at their mommy’s beak She feeds them Soon
they will peck at the ground and feed
themselves See how different they look from the time when they were hatched Growing Up! Peacocks
Peacocks live in India They live in nests on
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Trang 32| ! ee Hello, Eagle!
“That eagle is a beavtiful, big bird, Ow|!”
“Yes, indeed, Pooh But not as beavtifu! as an owl, of course.” # - € = i : -+* HL
Baby eagles are called eaglets These fuzzy eaglets
Just were inside their eggs for about a month Their
Hatched! mommy and daddy took turns sitting on the eggs
until they hatched
Look who is hungry! These baby eagles are fed by
; both their mommy and daddy They need their
Growin Up! parents until they learn to fly That will be in just a few months 3 Eaeles Ị Eagles live high up in trees or on cliffs at Home! : :
They often build nests near lakes and rivers That is so they can dive down and Gy is a fish for their food
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Eagles build huge nests
The nests can be as big as two of you! That is because the eagles keep adding on to the same nest year after year
A woodpecker can bang away at
a tree and not hurt its head That is because woodpeckers have extra strong bones in their heads It is as if they have their own built-in helmets! Ostriches are the biggest birds in the world
They can be nine feet tall and weigh more than 300 pounds
Trang 35THATS + a [IccrgtiC Í Arctic terns fly all around the world once a year
They fly from the North Pole to the South
Pole, and then back again That is a total of 18,000 miles Peregrine falcons are the fastest birds in the world
They can dive down from the skies at 112 mph (180 kph) Thart‘is twice as fast as a car speeding down the highway!
Hoo, hoo, hoo!
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Now you've learned
about birds, look at
the picture and answer
the questions below
Trang 38(Summary A Note to the Parents Pooh Wonders “Owl, what is a bird?”
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Page 6: a) Bios/Seitre; b) Sunset/West Stock; c) Sunset/Horizon Visia
Page 7: a) Bios/Féve; b) Hoaqui/Zefa Sunset; c) hd Bios/Noto-Campanella; d)Sunset/Reinhard Page 8: a) Sunset/Guyon; b) Sunset/FLPA; c) Sunset/FLPA Page 9: Bios/Noto-Campanella Page 10: a) Sunset/Mc Donald; b) Sunset/Reinhard; c) Sunset/Horizon Vision Page 11: Bios/Alcalay — *
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Page 14: a) Bios/Sauvannet; b) Bios/Seitre; c) Bios/Tyrell Page 15: Bios/OSF/Tyrell
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Page 17: a) Bios/Robbrecht; b) Sunset/Horizon Vision;
c) Sunset/Warden; d) Bios/Seitre; e) Bios/Pernot
Page 18: a) Bios/Renaud; b) Bios/Ruoso; c) Bios/Ruoso Page 19: Bios/Fève
Page 20: a) Bios/Robert; b) Bios/Gunther; c) Bios/Dennis
Page 21: Bios/Granier
Page 22: a) Bios/Torterotot; b) Sunset/Reinhard; c) Sunset/Reinhard
Page 23: Sunset/Alaska Stock
Page 24: a) Sunset/Brake; b) Bios/Seitre; c) Sunset/Wolf
Page 25: Bies/Dragesco/Joffé
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Page 27: a) Getty/Stone/Gray; b) Bios/Ziesler; c) Bios/Puillandre; d) Bios/Thouvenin
Page 28: a) Bios/Puillandre; b) Sunset/Lacz; c) Jacana/Ziesler Page 29: Sunset/West Stock
Page 30: a) Sunset/Kumar; b) Bios/Wothe; c) Sunset/Lacz Page 31: Bios/Ziesler
Page 32: a) Sunset/Animals Animals; b) Sunset/Leeson;
ce) Sunset/Mc Donald Page 33: Suhset/Alaska Stock