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Introduces nocturnal animals, including moths, aardvarks, and bats, highlighting their nighttime activities.

Oliver the owl stays up so late one night that he sees the sun come up, but when he goes to share the sight with his nighttime friends, they are all asleep.

Describes various nocturnal animals and their nighttime activities, including the opossum, brown bat, and tree frog.

Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of some crepuscular and nocturnal animals and discusses the remarkable adaptations that enable them to live and hunt by night. If bats and owls make you nervous, concentrate on the flying squirrels, beavers, and foxes or any of the other nighttime species covered here. All of these animals have intricate and interesting ways of getting around in the dark. It is all explained in easy-to-understand...

Describes the unique characteristics and habits of different creatures that are active at night, including wolves, skunks, bats, and other mammals, insects, and amphibians.

After traveling to a distant watering hole during the dry season, Dawn, Tobin, and Bismark encounter strange events in the forest, including bark that jumps off of trees and tumbleweeds that chase them.

"Simple words and sentences combine with amazing photographs of real-life animals to make this an inspiring early reader that children will love to read together, read with help--and read alone!"--Cover back.

"In The Peculiar Possum, Tobin, a sweet pangolin, Bismark, a loud-mouthed sugar glider, and Dawn, a serious fox, encounter strange sounds and smells in the valley. When an unfamiliar animal appears, Bismark is not pleased! But soon Bismark and the Brigade learn that being peculiar is also reason to be proud. Bonus Content includes Fun Facts about The Nocturnals and a glossary of Peculiar Words from different languages."--Page [4] of cover.

"The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Nick to visit with nocturnal animals and to explore their special adaptations for living in the dark."--

Kids explore the musical mysteries of sound during a spooky trip to the haunted house. In the next episode they learn about nocturnal creatures and finally they discover the ingenious hunting skills of spiders. Animated adventures introduce scientific concepts. Explores musical mysteries "In the haunted house"; meets creatures of the night in "Going batty"; and discovers the hunting skills of spiders in "Spins a web."