River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers

Gail Langer Karwoski

ene 2013 · Arbordale Publishing · Narrado por Donna German

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This sequel to the award-winning Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (2007 Teacher's Choice and 2005 Mom's Choice) takes listeners on an around-the-world boat ride to learn how mammals sleep in or around nine major rivers of the world on all continents except Antarctica.

Row down the Mississippi and watch two river otters slip into a hollow tree, or look to the bank of the Brisbane River as a platypus pops into a hole and disappears into a narrow tunnel.

Told in a soothing style, this audio-book serves as a bedtime/naptime story for younger children or an animal geography book for older children. Adults may learn something, too!

©2008 Gail Langer Karwoski (P)2015 Arbordale Publishing

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Gail Langer Karwoski (Water Beds, River Beds, and Julie the Rockhound) is an award-winning children's book writer. In addition to Julie the Rockhound and Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (Mom's Choice Best Children's Picture Book Author for 2005), published by Arbordale, Gail has written six other books for young readers including: Tsumani: The True Story of an April Fool's Day Disaster and Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906. Before becoming a full time author, Gail taught in Georgia public schools. She frequently returns to schools as a visiting author. Gail married a rockhound. On their honeymoon, they hiked through lush western forests and stark "forests" of petrified wood. They dove into foamy aquamarine waves in the Pacific Ocean and dug into crumbly turquoise deposits in the Southwestern desert. Since then, they've gone "treasure hunting" for geodes, fossils, and crystals. At the schools where she taught, her classroom was famous because of the "rock box." Now, as owners of a quartz deposit in South Carolina where visitors can try their luck at digging for crystals, Gail and her husband have watched hundreds of people - both young and old - delight in finding sparkly quartz crystals. She wrote Julie the Rockhound to share this delight in our earth's treasures with children and their parents. Gail lives near the University of Georgia with her husband, two daughters, and three bossy cats. Visit Gail's website: http://www.gailkarwoski.com/