Bruce McMillan

Introduces the polar worlds of puffins and penguins, combining photographs and verse while encouraging young readers to explore the natural world

Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to illustrate how parts make a whole. Simple recipes included.

When women in an Icelandic village buy chickens to lay eggs for them to use, the chickens follow them, adopting human ways and forgetting their barnyard roots, until the ladies hatch a clever plan.

On a tiny island off the coast of Iceland, Halla and her friends wait with anticipation. Every spring, millions of puffins, the clowns of the sea, return to nest, lay eggs, and raise their chicks to pufflings. That means Halla and her friends will be busy in August when the pufflings venture out at night to take their first flight. Then, all of the children stay out all night, too. During the nights of the pufflings they rescue thousands of stranded...

A photo essay describing the physical characteristics, natural habitat, and behavior of the flamingos of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles.

A boy joins his two grandfathers on fishing trips off the coast of their village in Iceland.

Two six-year-olds on a whale-watching expedition see different kinds of whales engaging in such activities as headstanding and lunge-feeding. Includes facts about each kind of whale.

Text and photos present baby zoo animals, with maps showing where each animal comes from.

A little girl remembers trolley rides with her grandfather, who was a trolley conductor.

Describes a day at the beach in a series of terse verses (verses made up of two monosyllabic words that rhyme) accompanied by photographs.