New Releases by Annie Dillard

With essays and poems by favorite authors and spectucular photographs and illustratins by famed artists, this charming anthology celebrates nature''s musical gift to America: wild songbirds. 52 full-color photographs and 8 color illustrations.

All life has new beginnings--especially natural life.

She played the war, learning to creep through the woods without leaving footprints or snapping twigs. She read and dreamed about the war, lying on her bed, limp with horror and delight. The history of the war was a drug and she was an addict.

Throughout human history, people have always studied animals in the natural world. Read three people''s observations-- in three different places and times--of the lessons animals can teach.