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Let’s Talk Tails
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An adorable little Golden Book that helps children figure out which tail belongs to each of their favorite animal friends! The pictures uniquely combine drawings with color photographs, & includes fish, horses, beavers, chameleons, dogs, kangaroos, & peacocks.
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For the Birds: A Handy Guide to Attracting Birds to Your Backyard
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Our Price: $9.00
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Transform the space around your home into a year-round haven for our fine feathered friends with this simple, practical guide from The National Wildlife Federation. Whether you have a fire escape feeder, a courtyard bath, or a country grove, you’ll find many handy tips from Anne Halpin, an experienced gardening writer. Learn how to: landscape with plants that offer a natural food supply, nesting materials, & shelter; mix the bird feed your favorite birds like best; protect birds from predators; & create a backyard birding journal. Also includes a list of resources for further information on birds & gardening for birds. Illustrated.
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Bless the Beasts: Children’s Prayers & Poems About Animals
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Our Price: $13.00
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People have celebrated & blessed the animals around them for their strength, their vitality, & their beauty. This inspirational collection of prayers & poems honors the different ways that animals can touch our lives -- whether through keen observation of a tiny bug, devotion to a beloved pet, or empathy with an immense whale. Thoughtfully gathered & tenderly illustrated, this compilation includes such well-known writers as Carl Sandburg, Robert Louis Stevenson, & Rudyard Kipling -- along with a fresh variety of new voices & a sprinkling of heartfelt words written by children themselves. From gracefully saying good-bye to a furry friend to joyously glorifying creation, these diverse reflections offer something special for every animal lover & every mood.
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On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors
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Our Price: $17.00
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Includes 20 distinguished contemporary writers who have connected with nature & learned why we are inextricably attached to it. In “Against Nature,” Joyce Carol Oates explains why writers generally resist nature as a topic. Diane Ackerman swims with a right whale & her calf. John McPhee explores the mystery of the Loch Ness monster & the people who obsess over it. Sherry Simpson looks at the conflict-riddled business of trapping & killing Alaskan wolves. Also, essays by: Mark Doty, Barry Lopez, Vaclav Havel, Bill Bryson, Deborah Archer, Sue Ellen Campbell, Leslie Leyland Fields, John Hales, Hal Herring, Edward Hoagland, Kurt Hoelting, Paul Lindholdt, Leslie Roberts, Lucy Wilson Sherman, & Sandi Wisenberg.
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Animal Fables from Aesop
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Our Price: $11.00
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Barbara McClintock’s elegant & inviting artwork graces the pages of this children’s book. Here are the timeless fables of Aesop illustrated in her inimitable 19th-cent. anthropomorphic style. This collection includes such well-known fables as “The Fox & the Grapes” & “The Country Mouse & the City Mouse,” as well as such lesser-known tales as “The Wolf & the Lamb” & “The Crow & the Peacocks.” All are enlivened by McClintock’s uncanny ability to capture humanity, with all its strengths & weaknesses, in the expressions of her exquisitely drawn creatures. Filled with the delicacy of line that has come to be her trademark, these images are bound to please readers of all ages, providing a visual confection that will doubtless end up on the shelves of collectors.
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An Instant Guide to Butterflies: The Most Familiar Species of North American Butterflies Described and Illustrated in Full Color
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An ideal compact identification guide to butterflies commonly seen around the cities, roadsides, forest trails, and open countryside of North America. An easy-to-understand system of color-coded bands (denoting color combinations of butterflies) and symbols (denoting size) leads quickly to the correct section of the book. Then detailed full-color illustrations, with the caterpillar where applicable, a distribution map, and concise informative text allow you to positively identify the most familiar species of North American butterflies.
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An Instant Guide to Wildflowers: The Most Familiar Species of North American Wildflowers Described and Illustrated in Full Color
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An ideal compact identification guide to wildflowers commonly seen around the cities, roadsides, woods, & open areas of North America. The authors have selected from the thousands of North American flowering plants those species most likely to be encountered in the countryside of the more heavily populated areas of the U.S. & Canada. This user-friendly guide assumes no previous knowledge: an easy-to-follow system of color-coded bands (denoting color of flower) & symbols (giving typical location) leads quickly to the correct section of the book. Detailed, full-color illustrations of flowers, leaves, & shape of plant, plus a distribution map & concise informative text, allow you to identify positively the most familiar species of North America.
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Beaver the Baker: A How-to Picture Book
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A charming children’s story about a beaver who is a baker, showing him and his friend Frippy baking a birthday cake in his kitchen. They use a recipe from Grandma’s old notebook. Beaver has lots of pots and bowls that used to belong to his grandmother. All the beavers come to Beaver’s house to enjoy eating the cake and celebrating his birthday. Includes the recipe for Beaver’s cake. Translated from the Swedish edition. Full-color illustrations.
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Beaver the Gardener: A How-to Picture Book
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Our Price: $14.00
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A charming children’s book about a beaver who is a gardener, showing how he grows beans and all the tools that he and his beaver friend Frippy are allowed to use in his Uncle Samson’s shed. Includes a page of Beaver’s gardening advice for growing different kinds of beans. Translated from the Swedish edition. Full-color illustrations.
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City Kids and City Critters!: Activities for Urban Explorers
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Our Price: $16.00
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Will teach city kids science & encourage them to preserve wildlife habitats in their urban environment! Transforms kids into nature detectives & urban explorers. Helps students develop science skills by observing & investigating animals & plants in city habitats. Activities include: setting up feeding stations for birds, bugs, & butterflies, & a kid’s journal containing rubbings of natural materials like leaves, tree bark & rocks. Developmentally appropriate activities -- using mostly inexpensive household items -- are presented with clearly stated objectives, themes, materials lists, step-by-step instructions, & explanations of the results or findings. Designed for children in grades 3-6.
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