Jan Thornhill

For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. In this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that "weighed as much as a sack...

"Lily, a young snowshoe hare, hears that "Winter's Coming." But she doesn't know what Winter is. Winter must be frightening. Why else would the birds be escaping south? And it must have an enormous appetite. Why else would the squirrel be hiding his food? As Lily learns the ways in which her forest friends prepare for winter's arrival, she gets more and more worried about what she should be doing. But finally, the brown bear points out what Lily has...

When Kyle the sloth has to go to the bathroom, he must make the long trip down to the forest floor all alone, but soon finds lots of friends along his journey.

A collection of traditional tales about animals, from such parts of the world as India, West Africa, and South America.

Introduces the letters of the alphabet through illustrations of a variety of North American animals and brief rhyming text. Descriptive notes about each animal are included at the end.

Presents the life story of a 200-year-old maple tree.

Examines such questions as why global warming's a problem, how we know the Earth is warming up, how climate change will affect us, and how we can stop it from getting worse.