"They said I couldn't change the world; it wasn't worth the fight. But in my head, a small voice said...maybe you might. A young girl makes a choice to plant a seed by a long dead riverbed. Little does she know that from this single, small act, a vibrant ecosystem will grow. This inspiring poem - bursting with hope for a greener world - is a love letter to our ailing planet. It shows us that even when the future appears most bleak, each one of us...

"Wordplay with homonyms puts autumn on display and captures the art and science of season change"--

A love letter to the Earth shares striking photographic images from around the world that introduce such concepts as nature and science. Water, air, light. Patterns, curves, shapes, colors. Things that crawl, fly, float, run, bloom, ripen. Think of everything Earth gives us. What are you most thankful for? Includes notes from the author about related activities and resources.

Cloud, dew, ice, rain, snow, tear, vapor... Water is playful! Do you know how many different forms of water like to appear? One moment it moves, the other it freezes. Is it pretending to be a statue? Water travels through the sea, jumps down waterfalls, runs through the tap, fills the potty, makes its way through the pipe, exits through the shower. This book, it tells us about its journey in short entries – thoughts, it diary of different moments....

Navigating by heartstrings through fire and flood in pursuit of a future. "At once elegiac and urgent, focused on the great, unfolding injustice of our times: the wanton destruction of a livable climate and biosphere. The complexities and entanglements of the human and non-human emerge here through diverse planetary voices that make an abstract global phenomenon feel as here-and-now and as real as it gets." -Vandana Singh, author of Ambiguity Machines...

"With magical, concise and perceptive poems, Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman captures the life of a tree frog in an intimate and moving way. A master of the science note, her fascinating sidebars help bind the twin poems together and ground our perspective. We learn how treefrogs have sticky toe pads, how they still themselves when in danger, how they can change from green to gray to camouflage themselves - even how they eat their own skins,...

"Following the huge success of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox, this companion book is a lyrical celebration of our relationship to the natural world. In each of twelve short poems, a child tells us how or why they feel like the sun, a river, a mountain, a cloud, the rain, a forest and more. Their deeply felt connections and identification with these wonders point to how much we are all part of the natural world. Each poem comes to life through vivid,...

From the single beat of stain-glass wings, Butterfly emerges from his cocoon to explore a many-patterned world of climates, snakes, birds and frogs. Complete with a list of fascinating facts about different species of butterfly, this charming poetic picture book combines fiction and non-fiction to make a perfect educational resource for children whether at home or in the classroom.

Excitement spreads like wildfire through the jungle. Earth-goddesses are planning a conference! From Australia to Antarctica, Amazon to Africa, goddesses will debate the burning environmental issues of our times . . . and bushy-tailed, smooth-talking Coyote wants in on the action. Can this infamous trickster come up with a plan to infiltrate the conference and leave a lasting legacy for our planet? A rip-roaring poem about protecting our environment....

A stunning gift collection of animal poems from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, celebrating with heart and humour the creatures with whom we share our planet. Collaborating once more with iconic artist, Michael Foreman, Morpurgo's poems are inspired by The Carnival of the Animals — a humorous musical by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. Building on this classic framework, Michael has added many more animals — they speak in their own...