Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.

Illustrations and rhyming text present ten different endangered animals in this easy-reader version of the 2003 tale. Includes note to parents and teachers, as well as activities.

A thousand years ago, more than 20,000 pandas roamed wild through their native China. But within the last few decades, human have destroyed more than half the pandas' habitat. Humans have also poached them, and polluted and overpopulated the earth - all of which makes the panda vulnerable to extinction. Yet now the giant panda is slowly making a comeback. How? From the Sibert Medal - winning author of Team Moon and Girls Think of Everything comes...

"Three pandas must separate the truth from the lies they've been raised on in order to save their kingdom"--

A panda encounters danger as he leaves his Chinese bamboo forest in search of a new home.

Details through text and photographs the daily activities of Hua Mei, the first giant panda to be born in the Western Hemisphere in ten years, as she plays, naps, climbs, and frolics.

"Giant pandas are ... Asian animals that live in southwestern China. Readers will find out where they can be found on a map, what giant pandas look like, what they eat, and a little about their young"--Publisher marketing.

Mae the panda fairy needs Rachel and Kirsty's help to find a missing baby panda before it ends up in Jack Frost's icy zoo.

"A girl draws an unusual panda, who comes to life and draws all sorts of whimsical things with her, from a castle to a dragon and more"--