Recent Books

COMING SOON: Talking Tails: The Incredible Connection Between People and Their Pets, March 2010.

An informative and playful look at the relationship between pets and people through the ages. Did you know?

• Humans domesticated the first wild animals around 10,500 B.C.
• Alexander the Great named a captured city after his beloved dog Peritas
• Julius Caesar had a pet Giraffe
• Romans added one glass wall to their marble fish tanks to enhance viewing
• Medieval monks were the first to breed and domesticate rabbits

Alien Invaders: Species That Threaten Our World, March 2008.

Learn about invasive species – including humans – that have gradually made their way into existing ecosystems, bringing destruction, disease, and chaos. Detailed examples include longtime pest invaders such as cane toads, green crabs and rats and plant destroyers such as purple loosestrife, potato fungus and Dutch elm disease. Alien Invaders provides excellent reading for any young person looking for a unique perspective on environmental disasters, and contains lots of new information.

Sweet! The Delicious Story of Candy, March 2007.

If it’s sweet, it can be a treat. For thousands of years, the world over, kids have savored sweet renderings of milk, fruit, sugar cane, honey, or sap. Find out what tasty concoctions come from trees, roots, cows or bees. Learn the secrets of candymakers as they work inside temples, at country fairs or in home kitchens. And before you turn each page, read the timeline for the sweet and sour facts of candy history.

Now available in paperback.

Trash Action: A Fresh Look at Garbage, 2006.

Trash Action focuses on garbage in the new millennium. Discover how your household habits have a global impact. Explore the issues, new approaches and innovative technology. Evaluate and reduce your own personal footprint, then share your concerns with others. You can make a difference.

Snow Amazing: Cool Facts and Warm Tales, 2004.

Dive into that frosty, cool, white stuff - from the formation of a snowflake, to the swish of a toboggan, to the pounce of a lynx. Read terrifying and surprising stories of endurance. You'll respect and admire the amazing wildlife that adapt and survive even the wildest storms. But, most of all let's celebrate the wonders of snow.

Kids Book of the Night Sky, 2004.

Thousands of years ago, kids connected stars into shapes and stories of people, animals and monsters. And they could tell time and find their way home. You can do this and more. With this guide to the sky, you can locate and identify constellations using detailed sky charts, make your own skywatching equipment, read exciting celestial stories and play games that will take you out of this world.

Cool Woods: At Trip Around the World's Boreal Forest, 2003.

Step into the woods. The wet ground - springy with moss - soaks your shoe. Shut your eyes and breathe deeply. A wild mix of skunk, mushrooms, and fragrant fir tingles your nose. Welcome to the boreal forest - the lungs of the Earth and the last great forest left on the planet.

Cool Woods introduces readers to the boreal region with its whooping cranes, Siberian tigers, moose, mosquitoes, peoples, wetland and trees, trees, trees. It's a good news environmental story but also a call to action to help preserve this magnificent and fragile place.