Theme: Nature

The Plant Hunters

By Book Importer | Published: May 11, 2012

Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals.  They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats.  Even the plants themselves could be lethal!  But these intrepid eighteenth and nineteenth century explorers were determined to find and collect new and unusual [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), International, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Crossing

By Book Importer | Published: May 11, 2012

This young, lyrical picture book reveals the adventure and natural wonders that Lewis & Clark encountered on their Western expedition in the early 1800s. Told from the point of view of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the baby on Sacagawea’s back, this story offers a fresh perspective of a young country and gives voice to a character [...]

Descriptors: Americas, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Primary (ages 6-9), United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature

By Book Importer | Published: April 3, 2012

This book introduces the sights and sounds of the changing seasons, along city streets and in country meadow.

Descriptors: England (UK), Picture Book, Poetry, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Who Will Save My Planet?

By Book Importer | Published: April 3, 2012

This unique and powerful wordless book uses striking photos to show the impact of humans on the environment. Each provocative image speaks volumes. On every spread we are shown a treasure that nature has given us beside a picture of how we’ve abused that treasure. We see a beautiful forest glade beside a devastated patch [...]

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

The Wolf Of Gubbio

By Book Importer | Published: March 29, 2012

At night we lay in bed and listened to the howl of the wolf on the hill. In sleep, we saw his shadow slink along the moonlit wall as the great beast circled the town.No one in Gubbio is safe from the monstrous wolf that stalks them. The townsfolk, armed with pitchforks, travel in groups [...]

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

A Circle Of Cats

By Book Importer | Published: March 29, 2012

One a quiet day, when the wind was still, the creek could be heard all the way up to where the old beech stood.  Under its branches, cats would come to dream and be dreamed.  Black cats and calicos, white cats and marmalade ones, too.  But they hadn’t yet gathered the day the orphan girl [...]

Descriptors: Americas, Canada, Fantasy, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Wonder Thing

By Book Importer | Published: February 28, 2012

In a lyrical poem (which is also a riddle) and stunning linoleum block prints, Libby Hathorn and Peter Gouldthrope guide readers on a journey around the world–and to a deeper appreciation of “the wonder thing” that is all around us.

Descriptors: Australia, Oceania, Picture Book, Poetry, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Hawaii Is a Rainbow

By Book Importer | Published: February 28, 2012

This book explores the natural wonders, people, and customs of Hawaii, in photographs grouped by color.

Descriptors: Concept Book, Early Years (ages 2-6), Hawaii, Oceania » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment

The Conductor

By Book Importer | Published: February 17, 2012

Pairing two seemingly disparate elements an orchestra conductor and a grove of trees award-winning artist Laetitia Devernay herself orchestrates a visual magnum opus. Her spare, yet intricate, illustrations truly appear to take flight before our eyes and her wordless narrative nearly roars with sound as the conductor prompts the leaves to rustle, then whirl, then [...]

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

Wild Wings

By Book Importer | Published: February 17, 2012

The majestic Osprey is an endangered bird that hasn’t been seen in Scotland for years, so when Iona McNair locates an Osprey nest, she’s desperate to keep the bird safe from poachers. She shares her secret with her classmate Callum, and the two become friends as they work to save the Osprey they’ve named Isis. [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Scotland (UK) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » 1 Comment