Jan Thornhill
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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...
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"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...