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　　How big are whales? How do whales breathe? Do they live alone or in groups? Why are so many whales in danger? This exceptional book for beginning readers explores one of the most amazing animals in the sea. Featuring breathtaking photographs from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Amazing Whales is the latest title in a new I Can Read Book series about the fascinating animals that share our world and how we can help to keep them healthy and safe.

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　　Sarah L. Thomson is the author of Stars and Stripes: The Story of the American Flag, a Nebraska Golden Sower Award finalist; all the Wildlife Conservation Society I Can Read Books, including Amazing Tigers!, winner of an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award; and What Lincoln Said, written with "admirable simplicity" (ALA Booklist). Sarah lives in Portland, Maine.

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?STRONG SERIES LAUNCH:    ? The I Can Read-Wildlife Conservation Society series launched with TIGERS in Fall 04 (renamed AMAZING TIGERS! in pb) and we currently have 3000 trade and 1700 library copies sold.   ? We have 6 books under contract.  The other titles/seasons are: AMAZING WHALES! (W05); AMAZING GORILLAS! (S05); AMAZING SHARKS! (F05); AMAZING SNAKES! (W06); and AMAZING DOLPHINS! (S06).  These are level 2 I Can Read Books in the standard ICR trim of 5 5/8 x 8 1/2.  The paperbacks are published in year 2.    ?NOW IN PAPERBACK!: This is the second paperback in the series (after AMAZING TIGERS! in Fall 05).  We expect a major marketing and publicity push with the paperbacks and will coordinate our efforts with the marketing and publicity resources of the WCS media division.    ?TIGERS PB BIG SCHOLASTIC SALE: We have sold 111,000 copies of the AMAZING TIGERS! paperback to the Scholastic Book Fairs.    ?FIFTH HARDCOVER SAME SEASON: The fifth hardcover title in the series—AMAZING SNAKES!—is also publishing in Winter 06.      ?FANTASTIC WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHS:  The stunning, unique, full-color photographs are provided by top-notch scientists and other experts of the WCS, giving our books the highest level of quality and visual appeal.     ?AWARD-WINNING SERIES: TIGERS received an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Book Award.    ?STRONG REVIEWS:  AMAZING WHALES and TIGERS have both received strong reviews, including the School Library Journal,  Booklist, and Kirkus in the Review section here.    ?ICR AND WCS PRESTIGIOUS COMBO:  Fueled by the prestigious reputations of the I Can Read Book program and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), our new series featuring kids favorite animals will be the best written and best designed photo books for beginning readers on the market.     ?CONSERVATION HOOK: Each of our books includes in the text and endnote what kids can do to help save their favorite animals and how to contact the WCS for more information.  The WCS logo appears on the jacket and spine.     ?EYE-CATCHING JACKET: As with all the books in the series, we have an attention-grabbing jacket that will leap off the shelves.    ?WCS MARKETING PLANS: We are working with the WCS on many promotional ideas for the series, including: tying into their B&N summer reading program, promotion in the “Bookshelf” section of WCS magazine and an advertorial, tie-in zoo exhibit events/reading series/lectures; email/newsletter notices to their members/trustees/mailing lists (more than 160,000); giveaways at member/trustee events; special displays in their zoo stores; promotion/sales on their website.      ?POPULAR MARKET: Nonfiction easy readers are an increasingly competitive market.  Other series include DK’s award-winning Eyewitness Books series, which began in 1988 and has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. Also: Golden Books Reading on Your Own series; Random House’s Step Into Reading books, and Scholastic’s Science Readers.  To note: Seymour Simon’s See More series (Sea Star) were sold into TOYS R’ US and had a B&N endcap.    ?PUBLICITY / OUTREACH POWER OF WCS: Since 1895, WCS has worked from their Bronx Zoo headquarters to save wildlife and wild lands throughout the world.  They combine the resources of wildlife parks in New York with field projects around the globe to inspire care for nature, provide leadership in environmental education, and help sustain biological diversity.  Today WCS is at work in 53 nations across Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America, protecting wild landscapes that are home to a vast variety of species from butterflies to tigers. Their pioneering environmental education programs reach millions locally, nationally and internationally.  More than 4 million visitors annually visit their New York Aquarium and Bronx, Queens, and Central Park Zoos.    ?FUTURE BUILD:  With the success of these first 6 books, we would like to continue to build our WCS ICR program with more animal titles.    ?AUTHOR APPEAL: Author Sarah Thomson is the author of all the books in this series as well as the former editor of the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science and the MathStart nonfiction series at HarperChildr

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