Joanne Ryder

Poems take the reader on an early morning walk to observe the animals of woods and water in happy solitude.

Because they never give up hope and always want to change the present into something better, Fox and Lemming annually trick Winter into trading snow for sun.

A collection of poems about nature and wildlife, spanning all the seasons of the year.

Relates how the great white bears that live at the top of the world came to live on ice and snow.

When tiny spiders burst out of their eggs, the dance of the spider's life cycle begins.

At night after falling asleep, Anna flies to her favorite park which is now filled with crocodiles, monkeys, and a lion who takes her to his secret waterfall.

A child stands outside her lamplit home and imagines the lives of many night creatures as they move silently in the unseen, half-sensed world of the darkness.

Describes the physical characteristics of a firefly from the time it is a glowworm until adulthood.

As a young sea otter, the reader enjoys a day of hunting, grooming, and playing in a California cove.

Winnie is challenged to adapt to a new school for girls where teaching is anything but ordinary and where the eclectic student body includes magicals as well as humans, and while Winnie uses her wits to find her own way, crusty dragon Miss Drake is secretly trying to discover and foil a new plot by Winnie's grandfather to gain custody of her.