Jean Craighead George

A comprehensive guide to the outdoors and wilderness survival techniques that provides illustrated instructions on how to start a fire, build a shelter, catch a fish, identify useful plants, and more.

Describes how dogs communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.

A collection of autobiographical stories about raising a houseful of children and wild pets including crows, skunks, and raccoons.

Describes how cats communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.

Nearly thirty stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces by such notable authors as Natalie Babbitt, Marilyn Sachs, and Jane Yolen illustrated by the likes of Steven Kellogg and Susan Jeffers, demonstrate some of the environmental problems now plaguing our planet, e.g. overpopulation, tampering with nature, litter, pollution, and waste disposal.