A counting books with natural history as its theme, each number from 1 to 20 features a particular animal - from pandas to parrots - in their natural habitat. As a bonus the numbers 25, 50, 100 and 1000 are included too and there are notes to help answer the questions children are likely to ask.

The Wildlife 1-2-3: A Nature Counting Book

Thornhill, Jan

Children's Books

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

I Found A Dead Bird - A guide to the cycle of life and death

Franklin Watts Ltd

A combination puzzle and art book introduces "natural timescapes" to children, depicting from picture to picture how natural scenes change over spans of time ranging from a few seconds to a year. 20,000 first printing. Children's BOMC.

Before & After: A Books of Nature Timescapes

Science, Nature & How It Works

National Geographic Children's Books

The Wildlife ABC

Maple Tree Press

The Wildlife 123

A Tree in the Forest

Internationally acclaimed author, illustrator and naturalist Jan Thornhill has created a dramatic and unique picture book that brings to life the wondrous tale of one tree's survival through two hundred years of nature's blessings and scourges. 
 On a crisp, fall morning a little maple key spins through the air and settles on the life-giving ruins of an ancient tree. So begins the story of a single maple tree and the creatures it nourishes and shelters. 
 The intricacies of forest ecology and the importance of every link in the chain are highlighted in both the informative narrative and in the exquisitely detailed illustrations. Thornhill's brilliant drawings, each one alive with color and filled with a multitude of forest animals, will delight kids. From the tiniest cricket to the magnificence of a lighting storm, she captures them all.

The death of a bird is the jumping-off point for this intelligent, wide-ranging look at the cycle of life. From life spans to how things die, from what happens after death to how people cope with the loss of a loved one, Jan Thornhill guides young readers through difficult territory with grace, sensitivity, and touches of humor. She tackles the subject head on, never shirking from reality, but with a life-affirming perspective that connects death to the world around us as part of the natural, never-ending cycle of life. The book’s lively design and color photographs reinforce Thornhill’s pragmatic, positive tone.

A complete guide to every aspect of the food we eat.

Who Wants Pizza?: A Guide to the Food We Eat (One Shot)

Children's Cookbooks

Franklin Watts

I am Josephine - and I am a Living Thing

Animals

For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. In this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen’s waist.” Their demise came about in part because of their anatomy. They could swim swiftly underwater, but their small wings meant they couldn’t fly and their feet were so far back on their bodies, they couldn’t walk very well. Still the birds managed to escape their predators much of the time until humans became seafarers. Great Auks were pursued first by Vikings, then by Inuit, Beothuk and finally European hunters. Their numbers rapidly dwindled. They became collectors’ items their skins were stuffed for museums, to be displayed along with their beautiful eggs. (There are some amazing stories about these stuffed auks one was stolen from a German museum during WWII by Russian soldiers; another was flown to Iceland and given a red-carpet welcome at the airport.) Although undeniably tragic, the final demise of the Great Auk led to the birth of the conservation movement. Laws were eventually passed to prevent the killing of birds during the nesting season, and similar laws were later extended to other wildlife species.

The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk

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The Wildlife 1-2-3: A Nature Counting Book

I Found A Dead Bird - A guide to the cycle of life and death

Before & After: A Books of Nature Timescapes

The Wildlife ABC

The Wildlife 123

A Tree in the Forest

I Found A Dead Bird - A guide to the cycle of life and death

Who Wants Pizza?: A Guide to the Food We Eat (One Shot)

I am Josephine - and I am a Living Thing

The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk