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.

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

School is in session! But this is no ordinary kindergarten class. Meet sixteen young giant panda cubs at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong Nature Preserve. The cubs are raised together from infancy in a protected setting, where they grow strong. Under the watchful eyes of the scientists and workers, the cubs learn skills that will help prepare them to be released into the wild.

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.

Introducing the first giant panda to be born in the Western Hemishpere in ten years, this book chronicles the antics of Hua Mei, from birth to her first birthday.

These poems describes the life cycle of a toad from tadpole to adulthood.

At night after falling asleep, Anna flies to her favorite park which is now filled with crocodiles, monkeys, and a lion who takes her to his secret waterfall.

Describes what it feels like to change from a caterpillar into a butterfly. Includes gardening tips to attract butterflies.

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.