Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Describes how a volcano is formed, the different types of volcanoes, where the most active volcanoes are found, and what happens when a volcano erupts.

What was that? That's the roaring burp of a bullfrog! See that? That's the slick, shiny skin of colorful little rainforest frogs! Alive with froggy facts, this book has the coolest photos to bring kids deep into the swampy world of our amphibian amigos.

This book introduces children to the world of penguins with colorful photographs and fun facts offering information on their behavior, physical characteristics and habitat.

Photographs and text introduce young readers to snakes and provide information on behavior, physical characteristics, habitat, and other related topics.

Meet Slick -- Dump truck -- Tow truck -- Garbage truck -- Cement mixer -- Fire truck -- Tanker truck -- Car transport -- Armored truck -- Heavy hauler -- Liebherr T282 -- Slick's big rig -- Slick's office -- Slick's home on the road. Describes different types of trucks.

Explores the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and habits of bats, with photographs and a learning activity.

Follows the story of the longest, most torturous elephant migration on the planet. Living on the edge of the hot and dry Sahara Desert, the very margins of where elephants can survive, hundreds of elephants make a dangerous but necessary journey as their main source of food and water dries up and they must go in search of more. Battling 120-degree heat, sandstorms, and fierce thunderstorms, these amazing animals travel 35 miles a day in a race against...

Explores how animals around the world are driven by natural instinct to travel great distances each year and describes the migrations of the zebra, walrus, and Christmas Island red crab.

Describes pandas and thier behavior.

Photographs and text take readers inside the action at a race car competition.