Product Description: This stunning nature alphabet book explores the fascinating ecosystem of the Pacific West Coast — a magnificent area that combines an ancient rainforest, a rugged beach and a vast, open ocean, and where whales, bears, wolves, eagles and a rich variety of marine species thrive in an interconnected web of life...read more

A mother cuddles her sleeping infant through the night while she compares the child to various things in nature

Product Description: The haunting call of a loon is quintessential summertime for many people. These majestically beautiful birds breed on northern lakes during the spring and summer, and when fall arrives, they migrate to open coastal waters. Young loons stay on the ocean for three or four years until they mature and their gray feathers molt, turning to the beautiful black-and-white patterned feathers by which they are known...read more

Todd and his grandfather prepare for the sale of the farm and its contents by telling stories about life there and making scarecrows

Traces the life of a coho salmon as she hatches in a creek, swims to the Pacific ocean, and returns to her creek to spawn.

When her beloved cat Tommy Douglas, who has the most stunning orange eyes, dies in her arms, Miss Wilkinson buries him in the yard and plants a rosebush over his grave, and soon, brilliant orange flowers unexpectedly bloom on the rosebush, easing the pain of grief and loneliness.

A handsomely illustrated picture book simply and clearly chronicles the story of life, from its beginnings to the arrival of humans, incorporating the most recent findings.

Three stories show how an Ojibway grandfather and his grandchild experience the beauty of nature. Reprint.

Product Description: Book by Robertson, Joanne

For Sally and her brother Jim, life in Montreal during World War II means fewer books and an odd food shortage, but when the children are asked to bring something from home, something 'just like new,' to send to children in England, the war becomes more real for Sally.

Product Description: When Mattie's water-divining uncle breaks his arm and a drought strikes, Mattie must save the day and their prized goats.