Caroline Arnold's Books

This book for primary grades, illustrated with colorful cut paper art by Caroline Arnold, follows a baby koala as it grows up in an Australian forest.

This book for young readers, illustrated with colorful cut paper art by Caroline Arnold, follows a baby kangaroo as it grows up in Australia.

Illustrated with colorful cut paper art by Caroline Arnold, this book for primary grades follows two baby platypuses as they grow up in an Australian stream.

This book for young readers introduces a baby wombat, and follows him as he grows up in Australia. Illustrated with cut-paper art by Caroline Arnold.

Wiggle and Waggle are worms. They work in the garden. Meet these two wiggly, waggly heroes in five wormy chapters for beginning readers.

Read about ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that ruled the oceans in the Dinosaur Age. Illustrated with watercolors by Laurie Caple.

Meet aquatic mammals--from whales and walruses to polar bears and dugongs--and discover how they survive in the world's oceans. Illustrated by Patricia Wynne.

Echoing the style of the magnificent illustrated manuscripts that chronicle royal life in 16th century India, this book about Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal recalls both history and legend in the story of their meeting, of the epic events of their life together, and of the ultimate fulfillment of a promise.

This book for young readers, illustrated with colorful cut paper art by Caroline Arnold, follows a baby zebra as it grows up on the African plain.

This book for young readers introduces a baby killer whale, or orca, and follows him and his family pod as he grows up in the ocean.

Illustrated with colorful cut paper art by Caroline Arnold, this book for primary grades follows two Adelie penguin chicks as they grow up in Antarctica.

This book for primary grades, illustrated with colorful cut paper art by Caroline Arnold, follows a baby panda as it grows up in the forest.

This book for beginning readers introduces the bones of the human body and uses photographs and diagrams to show how they work. An Early Bird Body Systems book. Available in Spanish, November 2006.

Find out how the warming of the Pacific Ocean combined with global weather patterns creates the current called El Nino and learn how it affects people and animals all over the world.

Read about flying reptiles, some with wingspans as large as forty feet, that dominated the skies millions of years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth and giant marine reptiles ruled the oceans.

This board book for preschoolers, illustrated with colorful cut paper art by Caroline Arnold, introduces seven birds and allows the reader to count their various number of eggs and babies.

This board book for preschoolers, illustrated with colorful cut paper art by Caroline Arnold, compares seven farm animals and allows the reader to discover who is bigger and who is smaller.

This book, beautifully illustrated by Patricia Wynne, looks at how feathers, body structure, and wings vary from bird to bird. Readers will learn the mechanics of bird flight from takeoff to landing and discover how wing types meet the survival needs of each species.

This book focuses on the giant rock formation of Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock,which is a sacred site for Aboriginal Australians and a place to observe the varied and fascinating wildlife of the vast Australian desert.

During the Ice Age, woolly mammoths roamed the frozen lands to the north, while the huge Columbian mammoths lived in warmer parts of North America. Find out how scientists are learning more about these extinct relatives of elephants from fossil remains found in places ranging from sinkholes and tarpits to frozen tundra and at the bottom of the sea. Illustrated with beautiful watercolor paintings by Laurie Caple.

This book, filled with fifty nifty hands-on activities, provides exciting ways to learn about latitude and longitude, maps, climate, natural features of the earth, and other geographical concepts.

Recent fossil discoveries of dinosaurs with feathers add to a growing body of evidence that one branch of the dinosaur family tree developed into birds. Learn about the latest scientific discoveries and what they tell us about the ancestry of birds.

Easter Island is the most remote inhabited place on Earth. Find out about the giant stone statues that line its shores and learn about the people who carved them centuries ago.

From bats and dolphins to elephants and whales, many animals are able to hear sounds that are above or below the range of human hearing. Found out how a super sense of hearing helps these animals to survive.

At more than fifty feet in length, megalodon was the largest predatory shark that ever lived. Find out about this extinct relative of the great white shark and its fossil remains.

The island continent of Australia is home to an amazing variety of wildlife. From koala to kangaroo, platypus to kookaburra, find out how many animals adapt to their own special environments.

You wouldn't want to touch an electric eel, electric ray or electric catfish because you would get a strong shock. Learn how these and other animals use their ability to make and feel electricity to survive.

University Settlement House, which opened in New York City in 1886, was the first settlement house in the United States. This book looks at how poor immigrants in urban settings were helped through community centers that offered classes, sports activities, libraries, and at some locations, medical services.

El Nino is the most important influence on world weather beyond the annual cycle of the seasons. Find out how scientists are learning about El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation and how ocean warming that begins in the tropical Pacific is one of the most important keys to understanding the world's weather.

Five thousand years ago Stone Age farmers tilled the land in northern Scotland. Join visitors to the Orkney Islands and explore the remains of the Neolithic village of Skara Brae and see many of the ancient objects found during its excavation. No other place in Northern Europe provides such a complete picture of life in this period when people made tools of stone and bone and began to live in settled communities.

The Anasazi, who once lived in what is now Mesa Verde National Park, suddenly left their homes in about 1200 AD. In this book you will learn about their culture and view the remains of the clifftop dwellings, pottery, tools and other artifacts they left behind.

Ostriches are the world's largest living bird. Beginning readers will learn about the life cycle of these flightless giants and how they are adapted for survival on the grasslands of Africa.

Bobcats are small wild cats that are distinguished by their tufted ears and short "bobbed" tails. Beginning readers will learn about the life cycle of these natural born predators and how they are adapted for survival in a wide variety of habitats.

Stories in stone : Rock Art Pictures by Early Americans (Clarion Books, c1996)

This visit to the canyons of the Coso Range in the California desert reveals of thousands of ancient stone engravings of people, animals, and abstract symbols -- evidence of some of the earliest human life in North America.