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Hardcover:
9780385058001 | Doubleday, September 1, 1971, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A group of people try to preserve the beauty of a mountain by making it a national park
Describes, in simple terms, the way of life and characteristics of earthworms and their importance to nature and man
Hardcover:
9780690841541 | Ty Crowell Co, March 1, 1973, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and reproduction of a few of the world's 2,700 kinds of earthworms.
School and Library:
9780689301049 | Atheneum, September 1, 1973, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Emma, a pigeon who can read, learns about people as well as other birds when she leaves the comforts of home on Riverside Drive to visit Greenwich Village
Hardcover:
9780385024488 | Doubleday, October 1, 1975, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Describes the coming of winter and its effect on the animal inhabitants of a New Jersey hill.
Hardcover:
9780684151816 | Encore Editions, September 1, 1977, cover price $1.59 | About this edition: An appealing dog seeks out, chases, and sometimes hides from various kinds of birds in this illustrated guide to feathered creatures
Hardcover:
9780525384854 | Dutton Childrens Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Describes the activities of one day, from dawn to dusk, in the life of a road runner living in the desert.
Weaves together facts, a variety of anecdotes, and a view of the power and beauty of daytime birds of prey
Hardcover:
9780027701906 | Atheneum, November 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Discusses American birds of prey, such as eagle, hawk, osprey, and falcon, giving technical information as well as anecdotes of the author's experience with them.
Depicts the animal inhabitants of an old barn in Maine as the creatures shelter there during the harsh winter, waiting for spring
School and Library:
9780027701708 | Atheneum, October 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A dilapidated old barn shelters a wide variety of animals, including snakes, porcupines, cats, and a skunk, during the sub-zero winter temperature of Maine, while they wait for the first signs of spring.
School and Library:
9780027701609 | Atheneum, March 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An old apple tree and all the animals, birds, and insects that live in and around it are captured in evocative full-color drawings and a simple text
School and Library:
9780027701104 | Atheneum, February 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Different kinds of animal feet are featured in close-up illustrations of feet in action and full views of the animals
A narrative account of the life of the great blue whale, recounting the birth, growth, thousand-mile travels, and adventures of a young male, including his sometimes entertaining but ultimately fatal contacts with man
Paperback:
9780525484929 | Reprint edition (Truman Talley Books, July 1, 1989), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A narrative account of the life of the great blue whale, recounting the birth, growth, thousand-mile travels, and adventures of a young male, including his sometimes entertaining but ultimately fatal contacts with man
A child lies quietly on the ground and waits for the animals to come near
Hardcover:
9780688082048 | William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A child lies quietly on the ground and waits for the animals to come near
Library:
9780688082055 | William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1989, cover price $13.88 | About this edition: A child lies quietly on the ground and waits for the animals to come near
School and Library:
9780027701500 | Atheneum, October 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the unique characteristics of nine cats who have come to a Maine barn 'from somehwere else.
The relationship between nature and human life is explored in a study of a special woodpile that is both a home for wildlife and a collection of memories
School and Library:
9780027701555 | Atheneum, October 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Depicts the various creatures that make a cozy home in the author's old pile of wood.
Hardcover:
9780027701814 | Atheneum, April 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | also contains Phoenix and Consolidated Art Glass: 1926-1980 | About this edition: A small boy enjoys sitting near a rock, learning about the wildlife, deer, hawks, foxes, moss, lichens, and other living things that come in contact with the rock in the course of a day
School and Library:
9780684161112 | Reissue edition (Atheneum, April 1, 1991), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Considers the pleasures to be found in one's very own private place, whether it be a hollow in a tree, a sandy gully, or a secret sand dune.
School and Library:
9780027701203 | Atheneum, October 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A huge wild cat faces new dangers when he moves from his marshland home to a barn during the winter months
School and Library:
9780027701524 | Atheneum, April 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After being sold and mistreated, a pony eventually finds a happy home again.
Library:
9781562940744 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $22.40 | About this edition: Using his imagination, Nicky changes into a bird and takes flight
Separated from his mother and siblings, a little puppy must make his way in the wild, so he joins a family of foxes and learns to survive from the other creatures in the wood.
School and Library:
9780027701517 | Atheneum, June 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Lop, a gentle part-Labrador puppy born in the wild, loses her mother, learns to hunt and to survive the dangers of nature, is raised by a fox, and eventually finds a home with humans
Library:
9781562943363 | Millbrook Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $22.60 | About this edition: A celebration of nooks, crannies, passageways, and other spaces as places where you can dream and imagine anything you wish
The author creates some special holidays to celebrate the natural phenomena that can be experienced in the deserts of the American Southwest
Reinforced:
9780606076937 | Demco Media, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.81 | About this edition: A dweller in the desert celebrates a triple rainbow, a chance encounter with a coyote, and other wonders of the wilderness.
A wolf-dog instinctively travels 2,000 miles from Washington to Alaska to return to the boy who once saved his life
Reinforced:
9780606115346 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, April 1, 1997), cover price $14.55 | also contains Kavik the Wolf Dog | About this edition: A wolf-dog instinctively travels 2,000 miles from Washington to Alaska to return to the boy who once saved his life
With a lot of practice, a little boy learns from an old man how to listen to the sounds and songs of nature
Reinforced:
9780606136839 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, December 1, 1997), cover price $15.81 | About this edition: After hoping and trying, the narrator is finally able to hear the hills singing.
Prebinding:
9780613069670 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: A huge wild cat faces new dangers when he moves from his marshland home to a barn during the winter months.
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