Shahan, Sherry.
Summary: "This photo essay takes kids behind the scenes at a community zoo to see what and how their favorite animals eat."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A modern story of the animals we eat, as told by the people from whom we rarely hear. From the solitary hunter, who believes everyone needs to be educated about their food, to the family farmer, who argues that money isn't his primary driver, compassionate practices of food production connect their stories. It is an eye opening, thoroughly engaging, fly-on-the-wall film. Never has "farm to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEASummary: Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic AQUARELA, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in GUNDA, master filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUNBarr, Brady
Summary: Profiles animals with distinct bites, offering information on how differing teeth, jaws, and biting mechanics enable different species to eat, fight, and survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591 BARFoster, Charles
Summary: To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans. To do that, he chose five animals and lived alongside them, sleeping as they slept, eating what they ate, learning to sense the landscape through the senses they used. In this lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the lives of animals, Charles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 FOSFacklam, Margery.
Summary: Rhyming text introduces bug-eating animals such as geckos, trout, or even people. Includes additional facts about each creature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 1999
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Summary: When spring comes, Bear wakes up very hungry and is treated to great food by his friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents a comprehensive guide to raising farm animals for food independence, from managing a honey bee hive to caring for and breeding meat and dairy cows, pigs, goats, and fowl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636 BackyardCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home DamerowCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 636 BacMcWilliams, James E.
Summary: "Just Food author James McWilliams's exploration of the "compassionate carnivore" movement and the paradox of humanity's relationship with animals. In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning what was once the boutique concern of radical eco-freaks into a mainstream movement. Although animal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 MCWStones, Brenda.
Summary: This book starts with this essential question and then goes on to examine the diets of sixteen different animals, from elephants and giraffes to sharks, woodpeckers, and even humans. The concepts of carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore are all introduced and then reinforced throughout with symbols for each animal. The book concludes with an explanation of food chains in three different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: "Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing realities of factory farming. The End of Animal Farming pushes this conversation forward by outlining a strategic roadmap to a humane, ethical, and efficient food system in which slaughterhouses are obsolete--where the tastes of even the most die-hard meat eater are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 REEAnthony, William
Summary: This book shows how the animal kingdom contains several food webs linking all different animals to one another, such as apex predators, carnivores, and herbivores. Readers will learn about forest food webs as they discover fun facts about animals that call the forest home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.3 ANTSummary: When springtime comes, Bear wakes up very hungry. His friends help him find good things to eat, but will his hunger every be satisfied?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BEAArnosky, Jim.
Summary: Rhyming text invites the reader to imagine being a hungry raccoon, crocodile, shark, whale, or panda bear while learning what each creature enjoys eating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction ArnoskyCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE GOBStewart, Melissa
Summary: "From award-winning author Melissa Stewart comes the grossest journey through the animal world you'll ever take. From ants to zorillas, get ready to discover some seriously strange animal behaviors. Slurp up soupy insides with houseflies, spit sticky saliva to build nests with birds, and fend off predators with poop-flinging caterpillars and farting snakes. And that's just the tip of the dung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.5 STEYonezu, Yusuke
Summary: Invites young readers to peer through die-cut pages to see preferred food items for different animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2014
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE YONAnthony, William
Summary: This book examines the different animals in the grasslands, which include carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores, and explains how each animal is part of a specific food web.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kid Haven Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.4 ANTMorlock, Rachael
Summary: "What are pesticides? Why are animals given antibiotics before they become food for us? Can hormones in the animals we eat affect our bodies? Readers explore the answers to these questions in this accessible look at a hot-button issue in nutrition and science. Balanced text presents important information in an objective way, while detailed sidebars provide even more detail. Readers are also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.9 MORSewell, Jacquie
Summary: One medium-size whale carcass delivers as much food to the dark, cold ocean depths as 4,000 years of sinking food particles. When a dead whale arrives, the café opens for business, and who better than Dan Tavis to show us the bizarre deep-ocean diners who show up? Hagfish, zombie worms, sleeper sharks--this group of patrons is stranger than the denizens of the Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.7 SEWWhittingham, Jane
Summary: "The bright colors of fruits and vegetables are highlighted in simple rhythmic phrases which explores the food that humans and animals both eat. Each spread focuses on an adorable animal eating their favourite food, and a child eating food of the same color. A final spread directed at caregivers shares age-appropriate enrichment activities."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHIRoman, Joe
Summary: Reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying-and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 ROMSummary: Suggests organic methods for growing plants and raising animals on a small plot of land, explains how to determine the proper times for planting, and provides tips for using and preserving food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantern Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 LEVStewart, Melissa
Summary: "When a whale passes away, its body sinks to the ocean floor and becomes an energy-rich food source for organisms living in the deep sea"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023