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.

Describes what it feels like to change from a caterpillar into a butterfly. Includes gardening tips to attract butterflies.

Rhyming text describes how all the animals in the town come out to dance by the light of the moon.

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.