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A Good Book About Habitats
When Ralphie takes Liz home for the weekend, something's wrong! He forgot Liz's habitat! What place is best for Liz? A nest? A pond? A rock? Can you help Ralphie find a home for Liz? ... Read more

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In this detailed, accurate coloring book, colorists of all ages will discover a host of plant and animal species that thrive where the sea meets the land. Included are 42 ready-to-color illustrations of an octopus, a ghost crab, an oystercatcher, herring gulls, a beach plum, an hermit crab, many more Introduction. Captions. Index. 5 color illustrations on covers.
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Before the sun rises, an artist and her daughter slip out of their cottage into the morning air to explore and record the treasures of their North Carolina barrier island. They sketch, paint, and observe the sights around them and as night falls they return to their cottage, bringing back pieces of their island home to compile this scrapbook of a special time and place. ... Read more

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A great book for all ages
I grew up visiting my grandparents on a Georgia barrier island and took the life of an island for granted. But with age comes wisdom and I now see the beauty and fragility of these islands even more. This book has many great drawings . One of my favorites was of the wisps left in the sand by the waving sea oats. Kids and adults will enjoy this immensely.

Information Highway
This book gives loads of information to children as well as adult readers. You are intrigued with the story as you are learning about the environment on the Barrier Islands. There are pictures of animals, trees and more with names to identify them to curious readers. Highly informative and written by a very informed author! ... Read more

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Kids will love to learn about the coral reef and the relationship the reefhas with the oceans and land.Life in the Coral Reef explains every class of plant andanimal living in this important ecosystem. ... Read more

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Bobbie Kalman does it again!
This book has beautiful, vibrant pictures. The text is child-friendly, easy to read andunderstand. This is a great resource for elementary classrooms. ... Read more

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The remarkable web of plants and animals living around a single old fir tree takes on a life of its own in this stunningly illustrated story. Carol Reed-Jones' repetitive, cumulative verse--a poetic technique that children universally enjoy--aptly portrays the amazing ways in which the inhabitants of the forest depend upon one another for survival. Christopher Canyon's memorable full-color paintings manage to be both magical and true to life. Complete with a guide to the forest creatures and their interrelationships, this book is a valuable learning tool as well as fun for kids. ... Read more

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Life in a conifer forest, up close & vivid!
Come into a deep, old northern forest where trees reach for the sky, hundreds of feet high. Where their roots beneath the duff, spread out in vast tendrils seeking food, creating food for voles & mice, who, in turn, are fattened up for the owls hunting for food for their owlets.

Carol Reed-Jones has created a lyrical story of life around an old-growth fir tree, & Christopher Canyon's illustrations are bright, powerful & absorbing.

A keeper, its story is delightful & its images memorable.

Outstanding depiction of the Circle of Life!
"The Tree in the Ancient Forest" depicts the"circle of life" concept in a beautifully presented, easilyread format. The author, Carol Reed-Jones captures the essence of the importance and beauty of an ancient forest, presenting a different element on each page. Christopher Canyon's illustrations offer additional beauty to the ideas penned by the author. A wonderful book for children and adults alike -- a great gift book for the ecologically-minded, nature-lover! Highly recommended! ... Read more

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Beautiful illustrations make the coral reef come alive!
The illustrations are what caught my eye with this book about a hermit crab's quest to find a new home. The cover shown above gives you an idea of the detailed artwork within. At the end of the book are line drawings explaining the various plants and animals that live in a coral reef. My 7 yo daughter has been enjoying this book for a couple of years now. A nice simple story.

A very highly recommended story of problem-solving & change.
Hermit crab loves his shell but he's outgrown it - he sets out to seek a replacement but finds only another crab with the same problem. Very simple text and large color illustrations of coral reef life accompany a story of problem-solving and change. ... Read more

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Good Resource -Lots of photos!
Encourage your children to recycle and care for the environment with this book.It contains 50 ideas using items from nature (stones, sticks, plants, etc.) and recycled materials (cans, paper bags, newspapers, etc.) Afew of their eco-friendly ideas include: license plate bird feeder,handprint giftwrap, a wooden house for bats, birch bark canoe, potato printshirts, mosaic flowerpots, sketch and press nature journals, paper bagbooks, cut and paste bottles and jars, corn husk sunflowers, papier machepinata and hats, Eco party ideas, bottle gardens, natural cosmetics, andmore.

Craft ideas range from easy to more challenging and are appropriatefor a variety of age ranges, though elementary and middle school agedstudents would enjoy them the most. The book is filled with severalphotographs for each activity making it a hit with visual learners!

Inaddition to great craft ideas, the book highlights several environmentalorganizations -- many started by kids -- that are making a difference. This book just might inspire your child or teenager to get involved! ... Read more

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From a Slugs perspective
A great book that takes a unique angle - what its like to be a slug. Himmelman and Stewart don't just tell us about slugs, they shows us their real-life danger and adventure story (you'd be surprised).

Really neat book, appeals to all. Can even convertthose of us once grossed out by these slimy creatures.

I Never Thought I Could Care about a Slug
This book was great!I learned a lot about slugs, more than I thought I wanted to know. I never knew they were hermaphrodites. The author managed to write a suspensful book about a slug!!The kids in my class (and I) all said, "whew!" when the slug escaped danger!I also like Mr. Himmelman's dedications.We are learning how to write dedications in our class and I show these to my students.The illustrations are fantastic.They show point of view, detail and are accurate.The close up of a slug's face is a sight to behold.The books in this series are the best non-fiction books for young children Ihave ever seen...and teachers, too.Mr. Himmelman teaches respect for nature because he allows the reader to get caught up in the life of his characters...from now on, when I see them in my garden, I will think of them in a whole new way....This is a tribute to Mr. Himmelman! ... Read more

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A thought-provoking look at the state of our world, how our environment has been damaged and how it can be repaired.The "Life in the..." series looks at cities, deserts, islands, oceans, plains and more (in English and Spanish) - teaching kids ages 8-11 how to protect the environment.

The Parent Council proclaims that this is "An excellent series... Definitely a winner in any school library." ... Read more

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Under an autumn moon:

Endure the devastation following a hurricane in the salt marshes along the Connecticut coast with a young buck under the September moon.

Search for food with an alligator in the Florida Everglades as the October moon rises.

Trek through the Alaskan tundra with a pack of wolves as the November moon selects its survivors.

In this series, acclaimed naturalist Newbery-winning author Jean Caighead George takes readers on a wondrous journey each season of the year as she captures the lives of North American animals in their natural habitats.

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A fine reproduction of beautiful nature stories
In 1969, the prestigious nature writer Jean Craighead George authored a series of thirteen books, each one focusing on a different season and an animal who survived during that time, all over the country.The books were called THE THIRTEEN MOONS and featured THE MOON OF THE ALLIGATOR, BEAR, CHICKAREE, DEER, FOX PUPS, MOLE, MONARCH BUTTERFLY, MOUNTAIN LION, OWL, SALAMANDER, WILD PIG, WINTER BIRD, and GRAY WOLVES (see my review of these books under THE MOON OF THE OWLS).These books featured simple black-and-white illustrations and went out of print.Two decades later in 1992 they made a comeback with lavish color illustrations, though they retained their poetic wording and intriguing subjects.But then the Thirteen Moons again went out of print.Now, to avid nature lovers' and readers' delight, they are back!The thirteen hardcover books have been compressed into four paperback ones, each one containing three or four stories about different animals, along with a few of the more recent color illustrations.The titles have changed; instead of the Thirteen Moons the series is now, perhaps slightly less majestically, Seasons of the Moon.AUTUMN MOON is the first to be released and features the MOON OF THE. . .DEER, ALLIGATORS, and GRAY WOLVES in their entirety.These outstanding stories pitting wild animals against the elements of nature are unforgettable.The descriptions are lively and very authentic.You can really see the young spike buck as he flees from the hurricane of September, feel the October humidity of the Everglades with the Florida alligator, and feel the chill in the air as the gray wolves trek through Alaska searching for food in snowy November.As for the illustrations, only a small portion of the ones from the reprinted 1992 versions are reproduced, and these hardly do the beautiful paintings any justice.Still, they do add to the stories, and it's nice that they were included.After reading AUTUMN MOON, be sure to read WINTER MOON, and SPRING and SUMMER MOON will be released in February of 2002.Ms. George has written nearly 80 other books for young readers.But the fineness of her nature writing is demonstrated in this amazing series. ... Read more