Kakapo Rescue : Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
Children's Literature: What's a kakapo? It is a heavy, flightless parrot with moss-green feathers and a smell like that of honey that is on the brink of extinction. Author Montgomery and photographer Bishop have a ten-day pass to visit Codfish Island?just south of New Zealand?to report on the devoted rangers, technical support officers, and volunteers […]
Red Sings From Treetops : a Year In Colors
Added to the Lisbon Public Library in celebration of the birth of Micah Gabriel Simpson.
Whaling Season
From the Publisher: Not all scientists live where they work, harvest their own subjects, or use information passed down from generation after generation of Inupiaq Eskimos to help learn about the bowhead whale. Arctic whale scientist Craig George is the son of children?s author Jean Craighead George, and out on the ice with the whales […]
The Life and Times of Corn
Kirkus Reviews: Micucci, who has closely examined the apple, the peanut, the honeybee and most recently the ant (The Life and Times of the Ant, 2003, etc.), now turns to the largest crop in America-corn. Who knew those little kernels contained so much history and lore? In a conversational and lively narrative, the author follows […]
The Hive Detectives : Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
School Library Journal: Gr 5?8?The mystery of the vanishing honeybees began in the winter of 2006 when beekeeper Dave Hackenberg inspected 400 of his 3000 hives in Florida and discovered that 20 million bees had simply disappeared. He frantically alerted state bee inspectors and other beekeepers that there was some strange new ailment affecting these […]