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1) Our fort
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three friends set out to visit their secret fort at the edge of the woods, but as they are enjoying the freedom and nature all around them a big storm rolls in.
2) Blue sky
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Throughout the day and into the night, a boy and his family observe the constantly changing sky.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1974]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
44 unnumbered pages: color illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Once there was a little island in the ocean. That little island changes as the seasons come and go. The storm and the day and night change it. So do the lobsters and seals and gulls that stop by. Then one day a kitten visits the little island and learns a secret that every child will enjoy.
4) Outside in
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Catamount Press
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
151 pages 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smoke to See By is a collection of 21 essays and stories, many never before published, written by award-winning essayist and columnist Ben Moyer. The collection tracks the writer’s quest for intimate knowledge of, and personal connection to, the natural features of his home region, the foothills and ridges of Northern Appalachia. Readers will follow Moyer along mountain streams and through native woodlands to insightful encounters with rare salamanders,...
Author
Language
English
Description
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
Author
Publisher
National Garden Clubs
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of a school-age child whose grandparents force him to put his precious screens away - and open his eyes to a whole new world of nature - and the adventure awaiting him.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Because Grandad has explained how all things in the natural world pray and make a gift to the beauty of life, his grandson is comforted when Grandad dies.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
8 compact discs (ca. 9 hr. 6 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
12) Summer song
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Bees buzz, birds sing, and children roll in the grass and feel the heat of the summer sun. With striking verbal imagery, repetition, and alliteration, Kevin Henkes introduces basic concepts of language and the summer season. Laura Dronzek's glowing paintings beautifully illustrate the wonders of summer" --Amazon.
Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce the colors, songs, and activities of summer.
13) Elmer's walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Elmer the patchwork elephant finds many things interesting during his walk, but cannot persuade any other animals to stop and enjoy them with him.
14) Colors of nature
Author
Publisher
Creative Edition
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this illustrated board book, common colors are associated with images indicative of the seasons of the year, from the green buds of spring through the gray cold of winter"--
15) A good place
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bee, Ladybug, Beetle, and Dragonfly are looking for a good place to live. And they each want something different. Every time they find what seems like the perfect spot, they soon discover it's underfoot, near traffic, or otherwise not safe. How will these four friends ever find a good place?" --
16) The hike
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three friends set out on a day hike to explore their local forest, intending to climb to the top of the hill, where they will plant a flag, read a poem, and release feathers into the wind.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two children walk through their town, greeting the elements of nature that they meet and noting how the environment is changing from autumn to winter.
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English language edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text depict nature darkened by a brief rainstorm then, at sunset, colors brighten, rain drips like crystals, and the bright white moon shines as we fall asleep.
19) Darcy
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born on a windy hill off the coast of Ireland in 1917, a Connemara pony named Darcy is sold to a farm family and trained to pull a cart and plow.
20) Dark on light
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
As night falls, a trio of siblings stumble upon some of nature's hidden nighttime beauty, including timid fawns, blossoming lavender, silent owls, and many more wonders of the night.