New Releases by Bruce McMillan

"Fossil-bearing sites containing predominantly mastodon, Mammut americanum, remains were discovered west of the Mississippi River on the Osage River in Upper Louisiana only a few decades after the discovery by Longueuil of similar remains at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky. The first excavations were conducted in the 1790s by Pierre Chouteau, a fur trader and member of the founding family of St. Louis. Chouteau''s work was documented by several early travelers, including Georges-Henri-Victor Collot and later by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark among others. ... By 1840 the ... fossil collector and museum entrepreneur, Albert C. Koch, began extensive digging in the Osage River basin along with sites in the Bourbeuse River valley and at Kimmswick along the Mississippi River in Missouri."--Abstract.

Iceland is a very windy place.Going for a walk can be challenging. The ladies in one village, with the help of the chickens, set out to stop the wind. But the hungry sheep have other plans. Why aren’t there any trees in the Icelandic countryside? This original tale will tell you why and leave you smiling at the determination of the ever singing Icelandic ladies and their steadfast chickens.

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.

The author presents the story of Drifa, who lives on a small island off the coast of Iceland and is responsible for the hatching and raising of over 200 peeping wild eider ducks to reestablish a colony on the island. Full color.

Describes how a young girl living fifty miles from the Arctic Circle gets her horse ready to participate in the annual râettir, or gathering of sheep, in their farming community in Iceland.

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.

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.

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.

What color is a bean? Green? Or might it be purple? Dose a plum grow in, on, or above the ground? Join award-winning phott-ilustrater Bruce McMillan as he takes his camera in srech of some of nature''s gorgeous colors found in gardens and orchards--and expect the unexpected.

Photographs of various parts of a fire engine depict different geometrical shapes.

The author/photographer follows Evan with a camera for ten months and records his steps in learning to walk as Evan crawls, stands, climbs, walks, and runs.

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

Chrissy overcomes her fear of ghosts to help a long-forgotten doll. Illustrated with photographs taken in a house built in 1812 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Photographs and text explain the steps in manufacturing running shoes.

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

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

Photographs of an orchestra reveal different letters of the alphabet.