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"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate...
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English
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"Different habitats are home to different plants and animals. They all have a role in keeping the habitat healthy. Plants and animals that live together in a habitat form a community. While thinking about their own backyard or local park, this book takes the reader on an exploration of the community living among the blades of green."--
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English
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Millions of readers have been transformed and inspired by Francine Rivers' bestselling novels Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind. Now, in this weekly devotional, the beloved author invites you to join her in seeking the Creator through the marvelous natural world we live in. Francine shares observations she's gathered over a lifetime of exploring—abroad and in her own backyard—and reflects on how they might apply to your daily...
46) Dear Little One
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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"This lyrical picture book celebrates all the wonder and beauty in the natural world, featuring Mother Nature personified. From the treasure of flowers to the mystery of insects this book encourages children to explore their world and be grateful for all that surrounds them"--
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Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Spanish-language edition.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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Español
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"¿Estás listo para un paseo maravilloso? Entonces sal afuera. Deja volar tu imaginación y tu curiosidad ... y pronto verás el mundo desde una perspectiva completamente nueva. Los collages increíblement detallados de Micha Archer dan vida a las maravillas del mundo natural y demuestran lo divertido que puede ser explorarlas."--
"Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"--
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
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xiv, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"Adam Nicolson, the award-winning author of The Making of Poetry and The Seabird's Cry, explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist's curiosity and a poet's wonder in this beautifully illustrated book"--
Inside each rock pool tucked into one of the infinite crevices of the tidal coastline lies a rippling, silent, unknowable universe. Below the stillness of the surface course the ebb and flow of the tide, the steady forward...
50) Wonder walkers
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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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English
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"Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"--
51) Blue sky
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Publisher
The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
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English
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Throughout the day and into the night, a boy and his family observe the constantly changing sky.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxi, 249 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world to live a better, more fulfilling life. Looking around at the world today-a world of skyscrapers, super highways, melting ice caps, and rampant deforestation-it is easy to feel that humanity has actively severed its ties with nature. It's no wonder that we are starving to rediscover a connection with the natural world. With new...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
Description
"Fox teaches her cubs to survive in the wild, until one day she dies. Her body goes back to earth and grass and air, nourishing the world around her, showing that death is also a beginning"--
55) Run wild
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the joy of being outdoors features a child who abandons his digital device in favor of joining a friend outside.
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English
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"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment...
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English
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A memoir of life with an emperor penguin colony, illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography.
For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth--and of the extraordinary human experience of living amongst them in the planet's harshest environment....
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English
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Wild seashores and woodlands calm and refresh our spirits. Contact with nature enhances our wholeness and well-being. The powerful, compelling exercises in this book can help readers become immersed in nature's joyful and healing presence. Read The Sky and Earth Touched Me in a garden, backyard, or park. Part One is designed for personal practice; Part Two can be shared with a friend or a group. Practice these exercises, and discover invaluable nature...
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