A narrator shares experiences encountered once in a blue moon while interacting with nature, including spotting a row of ducks crossing a dirt road and glimpsing a shooting star falling from the sky.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."

One of the most outstanding living American essayists offers his thoughts about a wide variety of "naturalist" subjects, from the decline of the red wolf to the history of owls.

"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss canderail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job....

"Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle-grade readers, illustrated with color photographs throughout. Young readers will discover how to listen to the sounds of nature and what they can tell us about the health of the planet."--

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

"A boy explores his urban forest, then interprets it through his art. With art supplies in tow, a young boy meanders through the forest near his home. A keen observer, the boy sees his forest as both 'fluffy' and 'prickly,' and as both 'crispy' and 'soft.' It's also 'scattered and soggy, and spotted and foggy.' His forest is made up of many colors -- but he decides that 'mostly it's green.' Each aspect of the forest inspires a different kind of art:...

"In the vein of Jack Prelutsky and Dennis Lee comes a celebration of the sky with thirty zippy poems that will lift kids' spirits and let their imaginations soar. What do you see when you look up at the sky? In this lyrical picture book, the award-winning and critically-acclaimed children's poet, Robert Heidbreder, shares thirty memorable poems that capture the magic and beauty of all the wonderful things kids can see when they gaze at the sky. Gorgeous...

Guides readers to explore, understand, and observe the natural world, focusing on the plants and animals seen in the different biomes.

In this title, kids will act as plant scientists to investigate how trees grow, how they get water, food and nutrients, how they produce the oxygen we breathe and clean the air around us, how they defend themselves and how they provide food and shelter for thousands of different animals. Readers will get to meet the tallest trees, the oldest trees and some very unusual trees. The book includes critical thinking questions, discussion topics, activities...