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Everybody needs a rock -- at least that's the way this particular rock hound feels about it in presenting her own highly individualistic rules for finding just the right rock for you.... Read More about Everybody Needs a Rock

With a lot of practice, a young boy learns from his old teacher how to listen to the sounds and songs of the natural world.When you know “the other way to listen,” you can hear the wild-flower seed bursting open. You hear rocks murmuring and hills singing, and it seems like the most natural thing in... Read More about The Other Way to Listen

A young girl discovers that her impoverished family is rich in things that matter in life, especially being outdoors and experiencing nature.Mountain Girl knows her family doesn’t have enough money. But as the family sits around their scratched-up kitchen table and discusses the subject, her parents... Read More about The Table Where Rich People Sit

Beautiful paintings highlight the ways various peoples from around the world welcome the sun and the start of a new day in this Caldecott Honor–winning picture book.Some people say there is a new sun every day, and that it begins its life at dawn and lives for one day only. They say you have to welc... Read More about The Way to Start a Day

A Caldecott Honor Book An Ala Notable Book... Read More about Hawk, I'm Your Brother

From the highly acclaimed team of Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall comes the story of a girl who shares her love for desert life as she tells of treasured experiences like dancing in the wind on Dust Devil Day or sleeping outside on a hot summer night during The Time of the Falling Stars. Baylor's radi... Read More about I'm in Charge of Celebrations