Illustrations and easy-to-read text reveal ways nature affects our everyday lives, such as providing food and clothing, and showing when to go to bed and when to get up.

Told in rhyming verse, a stone is considered from a variety of environmental and emotional perspectives, as it sits where it is, surrounded by grass, dirt, and water, an unchanging certainty in the world.

"Explore nature through evocative riddles and bold imagery that take the reader from day to night and back again in this perfect read aloud. Who scribbles on the sidewalk with glistening ink? Snail! Who's a comma in a long, long sentence of a stream? Tadpole! Active readers will delight in the clever language and striking illustrations by esteemed author/illustrator Antoinette Portis. On each spread, children will solve riddles about the familiar...

"In a simple, evocative conversation with nature, a young girl witnesses how the season changes from summer to autumn"--

The residents of eleven-year-old Willodeen's village, Perchance, adore the lovable hummingbears who migrate to their community and winter there in shiny bubble nests atop blue willow trees, drawing tourists to the area. However, they despise other local beasts known as screechers, who have sharp teeth and smelly bodies, offering rewards to those who rid the community of them. Willodeen, whose parents were killed in a natural disaster, was taught to...

"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...

Follows a circle of family and friends over the course of a day from morning till night, showing the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.

A loving ode to the natural world follows Little Owl as he glides along on a quiet night looking for things that make him happy, like shimmering stars, winking fireflies and, most of all, spending time with his good friends.

Liz is excited that her three best friends are visiting her family's cabin at Marigold Lake, but something seems to go wrong with every activity she planned.

In an otherworldly story set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America, an amphibious man is discovered in the Amazon--and subsequently finds love within the human race.