A poor boy named Jack struggles to deliver a birthday present worthy of the princess.

Describes the life cycle of the hard-working honeybee.

As spring approaches in the Arctic, a mother polar bear and her two cubs tentatively emerge from hibernation to explore the changing landscape. When it is time, she takes her cubs on a forty-mile journey, back to their home on the ice. Along the way, she fends off wolves, hunts for food, and swims miles and miles.

A mother bird frantically tries to keep her seven baby birds fed. But seven hungry hatchlings are a lot. Can one little mama manage them all?

"A lyrical tour of the ecology of tide pools"--