Joanne Ryder

Celebrates the creatures of the earth, from spiders dangling in their webs to owls hooting and hunting out of sight, and asks that we respect and care for them.

Rhyming text describes many different kinds of kisses.

A mama bear tells her baby how she will always love him.

A lyrical description of a chipmunk as it goes about its activities in late summer, prepares for winter, and settles in till spring.

The animals get ready for the annual barnyard party and dancing at Farmer Snow's.

Rhyming text lists a series of animals in their natural habitats, from a fawn in the grass and a snail underneath a leaf to a buzzing bee and two racing hummingbirds.

Rhyming text describes many different kinds of hugs.

A child is transformed into a Tyrannosaurus rex for a day and discovers what it is like to be a killing machine and the largest meat-eating animal to have hunted on land.

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

One fall day a great white shark, hungry and alone, weaves his way about as he watches, smells, listens, and waits for someone to become his meal.