Step back in time and experience the spirit of the West through the eyes of five courageous women: Clara Brown, Sara Winnemucca, Nellie Cashman, Isabella Bird, and Margaret Brown. From a newly freed s
Discover why Leopard has spots, and what happens when Mrs. Chicken meets a hungry crocodile. These and other Dan tales are engagingly retold with dramatic black-and-white linoleum prints.
Book lovers will enjoy Raabe's outrageous ploys and solutions to excessive book acquisition mingled among the true accounts of famous bibliophiles. His book parodies the self-help genre; fellow suffe
Presents an imaginary journey back in time to the birth of the Hudson River and examines its history, pollution and clean-up, nearby Native American and European settlements, and the river's appeal as
Through stunning color images of habitat dioramas and fossils, curators at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (the book's co-publisher) introduce dinosaur lovers to the creatures of their affec
Written especially for people who live in apartments, condominiums or townhouses and units with balconies, this book guides gardeners through the important considerations of growing plants in these sp
Opening and closing gates on the way to the summer pasture, the author recalls her family's farm, a favorite old horse, the local wildlife, and the plight of the small rancher
District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC, from its earliest days as a rustic settlement along the swampy banks of the Potomac to the modern-day metrop
The summer sun hung low over the wooded hills along the Mississippi. I pulled my old straw hat low over my eyes and dozed off. If you could have peered under the mud and the blood and the sweat on my
Do goldfish hide? Are kittens left-handed? Do anolis lizards prefer mealworms or crickets?These and many other questions will be answered when students use the behavioral experiments found in this inn
Eight biographies, including Rachel Carson and Jane Goodall, and the story of the Chipko Movement, will inspire young readers to decide how they, too, can make a difference.
“A lovely story that children are sure to identify with and that parents will be cajoled into rereading endlessly.”—Norton Juster, author of The Phantom TollboothWritten by New York Times best-selling
Provides plans and instructions for growing twenty-six different gardens, with recipes for using what is grown. Gardens and recipes are divided by difficulty level, from easy to advanced.
To celebrate the central role of horses in Native American culture, this volume includes stories and songs collected a century ago along with poems by contemporary Native American writers and reproduc
This compilation of essays features outstanding writing by the best and best-known authors published by the Colorado Historical Society over the course of its history.
