Joanne Ryder

Celebrates the creatures of the earth, from spiders dangling in their webs to owls hooting and hunting out of sight, and asks that we respect and care for them.

"Rhyming text celebrates the special, kissable moments of the day, from sticky breakfast kisses to cozy bedtime kisses."--

The adventures of a young deer growing up in the forest.

Describes what it would be like to live in a little house by the sea and frolic with seals and crabs and other sea creatures.

Orphaned twin polar bears are taken from Alaska to the San Diego Zoo, where they grow up.

A lyrical description of a chipmunk as it goes about its activities in late summer, prepares for winter, and settles in till spring.

"Relates how the great white bears that live at the top of the world came to live on ice and snow." --

A child's father digs in the garden, finding and presenting for inspection such wonders as a round gold beetle and a leaf-green mantis.

A child is transformed into a Tyrannosaurus rex for a day and discovers what it is like to be a killing machine and the largest meat-eating animal to have hunted on land.

The birds that glide through the sky, hop through the grass, and sing on the fence gradually come to feed from a child's hand.