Eye to Eye : How Animals See the World
Publishers Weekly ★ 04/21/2014 Jenkins zeroes in on animal eyes in his latest merging of science and artistry. Subjects include the colossal squid (each of its eyes are “the size of a basketball—the largest of any animalâ€), the panther chameleon (“it can look in two directions at onceâ€), and the tarsier, which has eyeballs larger […]
The Warrior's Heart : Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage
This book was received as part of a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (clif).
Chasing Cheetahs
Kirkus Reviews ★ 2014-02-05 A trusted pair of wildlife observers introduce Namibian cheetahs and a woman who has taken on the responsibility for saving them. Montgomery and Bishop draw readers into the setting from the very beginning with a map, description and photographs of the Namibian savanna where Laurie Marker founded the Cheetah Conservation Fund […]
The Dolphins of Shark Bay
School Library Journal ★ 11/01/2013 Gr 5–9—Turner's newest offering tops even her stellar The Frog Scientist (2009) and Project Seahorse (2010, both Houghton Mifflin) as she delineates and explains the research being conducted on a unique clan of dolphins at Shark Bay, Australia. The lucid text reveals the complexities of this cetacean society, first as […]
The Great American Dust Bowl
From the Publisher "From its enticing, dramatic cover to its brown endpapers to a comical Grant Wood-esque final image, this is a worthy contribution to the nonfiction shelves." —Kirkus, starred review
The Animal Book
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/23/2013 Jenkins compiles more than 300 animals, using a loosely encyclopedic format with sections covering topics like “Animal Extremes,†“Predators,†and “Animal Senses.†Jenkins’s always skillful use of cut- and torn-paper animal artwork appears throughout (several images comes from his earlier books), while factually detailed captions describe each subject, resulting in a […]
Sea Turtle Scientist
Dr. Kimberly Stetwart, also known as the Turtle Lady of St. Kitts, is already waiting at midnight when an 800-pound leatherback sea turtle crawls out of the Caribbean surf and onto the sandy beach. The mother turtle has a vital job to do: dig a nest in which she will lay eggs that will hatch […]
Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled : How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like?
"Readers will come away from this excellent book with a new appreciation for dinosaur imagery and for the talented paleoartists who produce it." —The Horn Book Magazine, starred review
The Pure Gold Baby
Library Journal ★ 09/01/2013 : Anna is the daughter of anthropologist and writer Jessica Speight and is her "pure gold baby"—a happy and loving child with special needs and capabilities. As a single mother in 1960s London, Jess navigates career, relationships, and the National Health Service with compromise, determination, and the help of a close-knit […]
The Shade of the Moon
Kirkus Reviews Four years ago, a meteor crashed into the moon, altering the Earth's gravity; the world is an ever-bleaker place in this fourth of Pfeffer's gripping series. Seventeen-year-old Jon Evans, the younger brother of Miranda, protagonist in two of the earlier novels, lives with his stepmother and half brother in an enclave called Sexton. […]