Books

5 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Mastodon mystery Mastodon mystery Taylor Morrison Describes the efforts of the artist and paleontologist Charles Willson Peale to excavate and display the bones of a prehistoric creature now known as the mastodon. OL17870928W
Cheetah Cheetah Taylor Morrison Describes a day in the life of a cheetah family in the Seregeti National Park as the mother hunts to feed her cubs. OL18861752W
The Neptune fountain The Neptune fountain Taylor Morrison In seventeenth-century Rome, fifteen-year-old Marco is excited to be apprenticed to a famous sculptor but soon discovers that he has much to learn before he is allowed to touch a piece of stone. OL19520808W
The coast mappers The coast mappers Taylor Morrison Chronicles the difficulties encountered by George Davidson and others as they attempted to create nautical charts to complete the U.S. Coast Survey of the West Coast in the mid-nineteenth century. T… OL19924012W
The buffalo nickel The buffalo nickel Taylor Morrison A biography of the sculptor of the buffalo nickel, who grew up in the Dakota Territory where Sioux children were his playmates, buffalo robes were his blankets, and the town whittler was his art teac… OL23744086W