Delicate watercolor paintings and a haiku-like text celebrate the whooping crane, an endangered bird that has become a symbol of wildlife preservation efforts, in a study that details the birds' habitat, behavior, migratory patterns, and life cycles.

Counting Cranes

Owens, Mary Beth

Children's Books

Little,Brown & Co

This innovative alphabet book captures the beautiful world of the caribou.

A Caribou Alphabet (A Sunburst Book)

Literature & Fiction

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Offers an intimate look at the dreams of an array of animals, including dolphins, cheetah, and otters, as they imagine themselves at rest, at play, leaping, and running in their natural settings.

Panda Whispers

Animals

Dutton Juvenile

This bright picture book with brilliant illustration provides readers of all ages with poetic tales about the wonders and unique beauty of the four seasons.

BE BLEST: A CELEBRATION OF SEASONS

Simon&Schuster Children's Publishing

There is a deserted bay on a small island off Antigua where hawksbill turtles crawl ashore at night during the mating season to lay their eggs. Two months later the hatchlings―each weighing less than an ounce―emerge from the sand and scramble to the sea in the moonlight. Only a lucky few survive. Mary Beth Owens was inspired by her admiration and concern for these critically endangered animals to write and illustrate this beautiful book. The narrator―a craggy, ancient jumby tree that stands sentinel over the bay―observes a hawksbill’s arrival by night, her arduous trek to excavate a nest and bury her eggs, her solitary return to the sea, and the later diaspora of her hatchlings. Spare prose complements pages saturated with Caribbean color or brooding in ghostly moonlight. Color throughout

Hawksbill Promise: The Journey of an Endangered Sea Turtle (Tilbury House Nature Book)

Tilbury House, Publishers

* Ten Best Illustrated Books, Parenting Magazine * * An ALA Notable Book *
Nature and letters come together in this enchanting classic about the mighty caribou, one of the great symbols of the arctic wilderness. It's a counting book too--follow the number of hoof prints through the letters of the alphabet.
Also included are a compendium of caribou facts and a new afterword about caribou in the twenty-first century. Journey into the magical world of the caribou, North America s own reindeer.
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<li>A Tilbury House classic with 30,000 copies sold</li>
<li>Expanded paperback edition includes a haunting new afterword by biologist Mark McCollough, describing the condition of the great arctic caribou herds in the age of climate change.</li>
<li>Both an alphabet book and a child's nature book.</li>
</ul> Color throughout

A Caribou Alphabet (Tilbury House Nature Book)

Red Flannel, a pair of long johns, and Rosebud, a delicate nightgown, hang side-by-side on the line. Red Flannel loves Rosebud, but she isn't interested in such a coarse fellow. One day a sudden snowstorm threatens to freeze them on the line, and they take off together on a harrowing adventure. Ethel Pochocki has created a hero and heroine of timeless appeal, and Mary Beth Owens's energetic watercolors infuse them with radiant life. What Rosebud and Red Flannel find within themselves—and in each other—will warm every heart.

Rosebud and Red Flannel

Pochocki, Ethel

Down East Books

An alphabet book depicting the characteristics and ways of caribou.

A Caribou Alphabet

Tilbury House Pub

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