Theme: Ecology

Dorje’s Stripes

By Book Importer | Published: February 10, 2011

Dorje is a beautiful Royal Bengal tiger but he has no stripes. In a small Buddhist monastery in Tibet, Master Wu explains the reasons behind Dorjes missing stripes, and offers hope for the future.

Descriptors: Asia, Fantasy, India, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Chiru of High Tibet

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

The true gripping story of how scientist George Schaller and four mountain men set out to save the chiru (antelope-like creatures who cannot survive captivity and who live on the high plains of Tibet) from near extinction.

Descriptors: Asia, Poetry, Primary (ages 6-9), Tibet (China) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Raining Sardines

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Wealthy landowner Don Rigol practically owns the town. To expand his coffee plantation, he will lay waste the mountain jungle and the secret valley where the ancient breed of Paso Fino horses roams wild. Best friends Enriquito and Ernestina search for a way to save the ponies, ensure justice at a trumped-up trial, and reclaim [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Cuba, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

One Well: The Story of Water on Earth

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Seen from space, our planet looks blue. This is because almost 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered with water. Earth is the only planet with liquid water — and therefore the only planet that can support life. All water is connected. Every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier is part of a single global [...]

Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), International, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Follow the Line around the World

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Follow the line from the camels of the Sahara Desert to the blue whales of Greenland, from the giraffes of Kenya’s grasslands to the kangaroos of Australia’s Outback. This book takes young children around the world to see animals in their natural habitats.

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), International, Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Sparrow Girl

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country’s leader, Chairman Mao had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers–they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great “Sparrow War” to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to [...]

Descriptors: China, Historical Fiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Toby Alone

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Toby Lolness may be just one and a half millimeters tall, but he’s the most wanted person in his world — the world of the great oak Tree. Toby’s father has made a groundbreaking discovery: the Tree itself is alive, lowing with vital energy, and there may even be a world beyond it. Greedy developers [...]

Descriptors: Fantasy, France, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

In the Heart of the Village: The World of the Indian Banyan Tree

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

In the center of a small village in India, a banyan tree rises from the earth like a great green mountain. This remarkable tree has so many trunks it is a virtual forest, covering many acres. A place for laughing and bartering, conversing and resting, romping and chasing, meeting and imagining, the banyan is not [...]

Descriptors: Folklore, India, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Little Fur: A Mystery of Wolves

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Little Fur goes in search of her friend, Ginger the cat, who has vanished completely in this third book in the Little Fur quartet. The wise Sett Owl tells Little Fur that she must first discover who or what the Mystery of Wolves is. The only creature Little Fur finds who has heard of them [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Little Fur: The Legend Begins

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Little Fur is a half elf, half troll, as tall as a three-year-old human child, with slanted green eyes, wild red hair that brambles about her pointed ears, and bare, broad, four-toed feet. Little Fur loves and tends to the Old Ones, the seven ancient trees that protect her home, a small, magical wilderness nestled magically [...]

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