A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION

Often mistaken for mere puddles in the woods, vernal pools are the source of life for many intere...

North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority...

At the back of the book is a list of the animals that appear in the story and an invitation to fi...

David Antenborough narrates this picture-book send-up of a nature documentary, sounding just like...

The creatures in this book are hidden in various ways. Some survive by means of symbiotic relatio...

Hagfish, zombie worms, sleeper sharks-this group of patrons is stranger than the denizens of the ...

In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bone...

Jessica and her mom, Camila, must live in their cousins' crowded apartment until Camila finds wor...

In early April, as Owen and his sister search the hickories, oaks, and dogwoods for returning bir...

Natural selection and speciation are all but ignored in children's nonfiction. To help address th...

Pina explores the haunted country of the imagination where children struggle to place themselves ...

From the saltwater crocodile's vise like bite to the golden eagle's lightning attack from the air...

From creation of the 'compost cake' to curing and, finally, using the compost, budding composters...

Travel around the world and discover some of the most fascinating homes, how they were built and ...

When Flight 93 crashed in that Pennsylvania field-amidst unfolding tragedy in New York City and W...

Every year great blue herons return to the same nesting grounds, squawking over the best nests, m...

What can you smell, hear and feel but never see? Soft as a feather or strong as a storm? Bringing...

How do scientists and veterinarians protect endangered animals from deadly disease outbreaks when...

Lailah solves her problem with help from the school librarian and her teacher and in doing so lea...

The story of travel is the human story. From the first migrations out of Africa on weary feet to ...

Volume IIThe McLanes have delved into a wealth of primary sources to spin their tales of the earl...

Gloria loves to sing, dance and act in her bedroom, but not in public. No way. Gloria's big probl...

Memoir by co-founder of the ground-breaking alternative newspaper 'Maine Times.

Notable Features[[ Told through the eyes of a coyote, this is a riveting story with mythic dimens...

Rafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. Ameri...

Enormous jellyfish and fish with blood like antifreeze are just a few of the creatures captured i...

When, in his twenties, Philip Barter (b. 1939) discovered Marsden Hartley, he felt a calling: to ...

What can you see beneath an old, old pier on the edge of a cold sea? An ugly wolffish munching a ...

The poetic story, combining lyricismwith natural history excellence, is augmented and enriched by...

The first Rothery book to explore ocean life: Pacific walrus, king penguin, narwhal, great white ...

Did you know that the white material on the outside of space shuttles was not metal or glass but ...

Smoke speaks in mesmerising riddles: 'I lack a mouth, but I can speak... I lack hands, but I can ...

A young girl finds a starfish on the beach and wants to show it to her mother at home, but doesn'...

Forgive and be forgiven. It sounds so appealing-why doesn't it happen every day? Finding herself ...

Magnificent Homespun Brown is an exploration of the natural world and family bonds through the ey...

How does a boy come to live alone in an apparently deserted city? Are they separated by distance ...

Edward Hopper's monster lurks outside the nighthawks' diner. James Whistler's monster rocks in he...

When Ellen Vincent set out to document a working town's history, she hoped to find a place where ...

Civilization rearranges nature for human convenience. Clothes and houses keep us warm; agricultur...

When he runs off to the market instead of sticking around for a reading lesson, he encounters a m...

Sirena spends part of every summer in a rambling lakehouse filled with cousins, aunts and uncles,...

Tells the story of an elderly French-Canadian woman who lived in Massachusetts and raised goats t...

The 5,000-year-old Iceman discovered frozen in the Alps may have treated his gallstones, Lyme dis...

Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact wit...

An illustrated description of famous walls around the world and their significance. Teacher's gui...

Joshua and his grandfather love being together. More than anything else they love fishing. But Gr...

Four hundred years ago, Captain George Waymouth sailed from England to the coast of Maine in sear...