The seventh book in the Earthworks series offers a fascinating introduction to icy caps that have changed the face of our planet. Glaciers are powerful forces of naturetremendous sheets of ice that can weigh millions of tons, crush boulders, and flatten forests. Some slide down to meet the sea, break off, and form icebergs. Greenland, home to the largest glacier on earth, forms more than 40,000 icebergs each year, including the infamous one that sunk the Titanic. A lively look at one of the earth's remarkable phenomena.
This is Book 2 in the Earth Works Series. See all Earth Works books here.
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David L. Harrison is best known for picture books such as The Boy With a Drum , The Book of Giant Stories , and the recent Little Boy Soup . Somebody Catch My Homework is Mr. Harrison's first collection of verse. He lives in Springfield, Missouri.
Betsy Lewin has illustrated many outstanding
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