Joanne Ryder

Details through text and photographs the daily activities of Hua Mei, the first giant panda to be born in the Western Hemisphere in ten years, as she plays, naps, climbs, and frolics.

Rhyming text describes many different kinds of hugs.

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 child's father digs in the garden, finding and presenting for inspection such wonders as a round gold beetle and a leaf-green mantis.

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.

Readers are asked to picture themselves as the earth, turning in space, facing the light, feeling the green things growing and the oceans shifting.

Follows the activities of a hummingbird and his mate in a garden on a sunny day.

Describes, in simple text and illustrations, some of the unique characteristics of trees.

Pictures and simple text follows the life of twin polar bear cubs orphaned in Alaska and brought to the San Diego Zoo.

Photographs and text follow sixteen panda cubs at the Wolong Nature Preserve, where they are raised and observed by scientists and workers while they learn survival skills that will allow them to be re-released into the wild.