Joanne Ryder

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

The reader imagines how it feels to be a snail.

Fans of How to Train Your Dragon will love this whimsical tale, the first in a series, by a Newbery Honor winner, featuring charming illustrations and pet training tips in each chapter. Crusty dragon Miss Drake has a new pet human, precocious Winnie. Oddly enough, Winnie seems to think Miss Drake is her pet a ridiculous notion! Unknown to most of its inhabitants, the City by the Bay is home to many mysterious and fantastic creatures, hidden beneath...

As a young sea otter, the reader enjoys a day of hunting, grooming, and playing in a California cove.

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.

A mama bear tells her baby how she will always love him.

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.

Because they never give up hope and always want to change the present into something better, Fox and Lemming annually trick Winter into trading snow for sun.

Mrs. Lee's class decides to call themselves the first grade bunnies after their beloved pet rabbit Martha. Includes instructions for making a rabbit puppet.

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.