Joanne Ryder

Celebrates the creatures of the earth, from spiders dangling in their webs to owls hooting and hunting out of sight, and asks that we respect and care for them.

School is in session! But this is no ordinary kindergarten class. Meet sixteen young giant panda cubs at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong Nature Preserve. The cubs are raised together from infancy in a protected setting, where they grow strong. Under the watchful eyes of the scientists and workers, the cubs learn skills that will help prepare them to be released into the wild.

Describes what it would be like to live in a little house by the sea and frolic with seals and crabs and other sea creatures.

A young girl enjoys her day on the beach despite the rain.

Rhyming text describes many different kinds of kisses.

Jenny experiences the wonder of seeing and hearing the woods fill up with humming cicadas, and seventeen years later she returns with her young son to share that experience.

A child is transformed into a Tyrannosaurus rex for a day and discovers what it is like to be a killing machine and the largest meat-eating animal to have hunted on land.

Describes the awakening, feeding, and wandering of a polar bear, from its own viewpoint.

Poems and illustrations trace the yearly life cycle of toads from tadpoles in the spring to adults which hibernate in the winter.