The author joins several field scientists to find the mysterious encantado, the pink dolphins of the Amazon said to seduce people to an enchanted city underwater.
After five years, the call came allowing the author/photographer team to travel to an island off the coast of New Zealand to study highly endangered, rare, flightless parrots.
Join the conservation director of the Snow Leopard Trust, Tom McCarthy, on a journey high to a hostile (at least for humans) place in Central Asia — so cold that tears freeze.
Respect for all species and a long-term fascination with birds in particular come together in this richly revealed look at a range of birds.
The addition of a runt pig to their New Hampshire farm — as a pet, not for the plate — allowed the author to observe close-up how affection (even inter-species) builds community and friendship.
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Bright, angular illustrations almost frantically zoom across pages and combine with the cumulative rhyme (think of "This is the House That Jack Built") to explain how the earth was formed.
Though they joined the Confederate or Union armies for a variety of reasons, women fought during the Civil War.
Knox was a Boston bookseller in Colonial America who would go on to join the Continental Army and later the young country's first Secretary of War.
In her introduction, Silvey asserts that "Children's Books change lives. [This book] provides insight into how they do this." The organization suggests how books have touched people (e.g. in career later choice or developing a deeper understanding).
Silvey's years of experience reading, evaluating, and publishing children's books combines with her passion for literature that endures over time and generations comes together in this insightful glimpses at 100 books.