New Releases by Bruce McMillan

Bruce McMillan takes his camera into the garden and orchard, inviting young children to discover color as it grows in nature.--Ingram

The women of one village in Iceland decide to plant trees to stop the powerful winds that make it difficult even to go for a walk, but first they must find a ways to prevent sheep from eating all of their saplings, while encouraging chickens to fertilize them.

The ladies of Iceland have a problem: the birds lay their eggs in nooks on the sides of steep cliffs, so the ladies have a very difficult time getting any of the eggs for baking. They go to town to buy chickens to lay eggs for them instead. For a while, everyone is happy: there are plenty of eggs to bake plenty of yummy things. But the ladies'' problems are far from solved, for the more time the chickens spend with the ladies, the more they begin to act like them too, until eventually they stop laying eggs all together. Now this is a problem indeed, but you can be sure, the clever ladies will find a solution. Full of fun and silliness, this lighthearted tale and vibrant illustrations are a delight.

Simple rhyming text and photographs look at and compare puffins and penguins.

An hour-by-hour introduction to telling time follows the activities of a little boy''s day from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night.

Text and photos present baby zoo animals, with maps showing where each animal comes from.

Describes a day at the beach in a series of terse verses (verses made up of two monosyllabic words that rhyme) accompanied by photographs.

Two six-year-olds on a whale-watching expedition see different kinds of whales engaging in such activities as headstanding and lunge feeding. Includes facts about each kind of whale.

Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to illustrate how parts make a whole. Simple recipes included.

Photographs of an orchestra reveal different letters of the alphabet.

An hour-by-hour introduction to telling time follows the activities of a little boy''s day from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night.

Adjectives are used visually and grammatically to demonstrate the three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative.

Paired photographs illustrate the concept of wet and dry.

A counting book with photographs of wildflowers illustrating the numbers one through twenty.

Photographs of a girl involved in various activities illustrate such opposite concepts as above/below, full/empty, and big/small.

A young boy learns the meaning of the fishermen''s expression, "Finestkind," when he is a sternman on a lobsterboat.

Photographs of a kitten show all the things a kitten can do, including stare, squeeze, stretch, scratch, and many others. Suggested level: junior.

A collection of children''s books on birds and eggs.

Punography offers a new dimension for all pun lovers, a series of visual puns that will delight the eye and challenge the brain. Photographer Bruce A. McMillan here serves up a congeries of cunning clichés, a panoply of picture puns that may well replace sex as the national (indoor) pastime. Each pun is pictured (and given a surprising new meaning) in a series of superb photographs. A delightfully pungent volume, Punography is guaranteed to bring you many hours of pun and games.--Cover