When you know "the other way to listen," you can hear wildflower seeds burst open, you can hear the rocks murmuring, and the hills singing, and it seems like the most natural thing in the world. Of course it takes a lot of practice, and you can't be in a hurry... In fact, most people never hear those things at all, but this book tells you about two people who did -- one who was very good at it and one who took a long time learning. As in their other books, Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall bring us close to the essence of the natural world. Thanks to their unique talents, their books are for us the experience about which they write and draw.
Brilliant, colorful paintings depict children of the Yukon at work and play: snaring rabbits, feeding ravens, racing on snowshoes and hunting moose, panning for gold in famous Bonanza Creek, and explo
Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC's, for they are constantly comparing and classifying things and events the
Ferocious, authentically drawn pirates from many countries await your colors in this swashbuckling coloring book: Khaired-Din Barbarossa, Henry Morgan, Bartholomew Portugues, Captain John Avery, Pierr
How do you keep a rhinoceros from charging? Take away his credit cards. “Over 2,000 riddles of all kinds, from simple to complex, for all ages. Written by a children’s librarian, this is
This sturdily bound paperback contains the script of the TV special Really Rosie, the text of [the four Nutshell Library volumes], and music arranged for easy piano and guitar chords for the seven Car
Depicts the attitudes, patience, and understanding of the Desert People to reveal their closeness to a harsh land which they share with all other living things
Forty-five of Audubon's noted illustrations rendered for coloring by Paul Kennedy: red-winged blackbird, painted bunting, wood duck, great blue heron, ruby-throated hummingbird, purple finch, blue jay
Tells how the thirteen colonies united in the desire for independence, selected Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence and carried the news of independence across the colonial settl
The perfect introduction to Lewis Carroll's classic tale! This low-priced book includes John Tenniel's drawings from the original edition, each enlarged so that they are just the right size for colori
Here is a book that generation after generation has taken to its heart, for it lives and breathes the spirit of St. Francis as no other book has ever done. It is irresistible. The warmth of Franciscan
