Wasatch County Library

"Lakes, trees, and birds are all part of nature. Early readers can explore ways to care for nature in this easily accessible text. Pairs with the fiction book, Nature Walk"--

"In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth?"--Publisher's description.

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed...

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, and world distribution of dolphins.

Describes the development of Mel, a koala living in a nature park, from birth to age eleven months.

Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, and world distribution of wasps.

Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, and world distribution of lemurs.

Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, and world distribution of toucans.

Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, and world distribution of camels.