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Granny teaches Reddy Fox many lessons about humility, selflessness, patience, and other virtues in stories about the animals that live in the Green Meadow and Green Forest.
"Old Granny Fox shows little Reddy Fox how to obtain food during the long, cold winter."--Publisher's advertisement.
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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,...
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Red doesn't remember who she is or where she came from. In fact, her only memory is a terrifying, repeating dream of a threatening shadow and a foggy field. But after many years, she wonders if that's just something she made up. Red does know that she now belongs with Yakaka, the witch who rescued Red when she was a little girl. Full of power and magic, Yakaka travels the world, healing the planet when it calls for her help. Yakaka carries Red between...
6) Outside in
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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.
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In the heart of the Green Forest, where the whispering pines dance and the babbling brook sings, there lies a world of wonder and adventure. Join Mother West Wind, the gentle and wise old owl, as she weaves enchanting tales of the forest's inhabitants. From Danny Meadow Mouse's daring escapades to Sammy Jay's mischievous pranks, each story unfolds a tapestry of friendship, courage, and the magic that dwells within the wild. Prepare to be captivated...
8) Shardik
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Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events. Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept on by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious...
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"Our narrator is stuck at home alone under lockdown, where she remembers her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. The ecological phenomena that start in her own backyard interconnect and spread out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate, money flows around the planet, and bodies feel the force of distant power"--
11) This house, once
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English
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Asks readers to think about ways in which the natural world has provided for them, by exploring all the different elements of a house and where each came from, once.
12) The looking book
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Ideals Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Torn away from the television by their mother, two children discover some delights in the outdoors.
14) Sato the rabbit
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First English-language edition
Physical Desc
58 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
Description
After becoming a rabbit, Haneru Sato gathers stars at an observatory, sails the sea in a watermelon, tastes the emotions captured in different colors of ice, and more.
15) Dark on light
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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.
16) Nesting
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 27 cm
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English
Description
Two robins build a nest together and raise their chicks, navigating a year of changing seasons and serpentine predators.--
18) The meadow
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English
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Tells the hundred-year story of a meadow in the mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border and the people who are possessed by this terrain.
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