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Although to outside eyes, her existence may seem beset by difficult circumstances, 18-year-old Hazel Woodus loves her idyllic life in the gorgeous Shropshire countryside, where she spends most of her time communing with the forest and woodland creatures. But when a clash with her eccentric father causes unbearable tension in the household, Hazel decides it's time to make her own way in the world.
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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,...
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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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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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.
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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Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"Some people think hats are fancy things you can buy at a dressy store, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. In this book, acorns and raspberries are snug hats for your fingers, and an empty pudding cup is a good hat for a stuffed bear. Pajama pants make dangly hats, books can be dramatic hats, and bubbles make very fine hats as well (if temporary)"--
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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) Wonder walkers
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"Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"--
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This is the timeless story of a solitary shepherd who spent his life working anonymously to reforest Provence, France, and by doing so revitalized the land and the people who lived there. A barren region in France is brought back to life by the efforts of Elzeard Bouffier who, with great determination, plants 100 acorns everyday over thirty years.
13) 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) Dark on light
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Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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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.
15) Sato the rabbit
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Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First English-language edition
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58 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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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.
17) Nesting
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Two robins build a nest together and raise their chicks, navigating a year of changing seasons and serpentine predators.--
19) 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.
20) Counting by 7s
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English
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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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