Most Popular Books by Jim Arnosky

With Jim Arnosky as your guide, an ordinary hike becomes an eye-opening experience. He'll help you spot a hawk soaring far overhead and note the details of a dragonfly up close. Study the black-and-white drawings -- based on his own field research -- and you'll discover if those tracks in the brush were made by a deer or a fox. In his celebrated style, this author, artist, and naturalist enthusiastically shares a wealth of tips. Jim Arnosky wants you to enjoy watching wildlife. He carefully explains how field marks, shapes, and location give clues for identifying certain plants and animals wherever you are. He gives hints for sharpening observational skills. And he encourages you to draw and record birds, insects, shells, animal tracks, and other finds from a busy day's watch.

An armadillo remembers where his burrow is by the orange near the opening, but when the orange rolls away, he discovers a new way to find his home.

Crinkleroot the forest dweller describes the changes that take place in animals and plants throughout the four seasons.

Discusses turkeys, what they eat, where they sleep, and how they survive.

An anecdotal account of the pleasures of fly fishing, discussing the choice and use of tackle, kinds of flies, walking in water, and watching for fish.

A mother manatee and her baby swim in the warm waters of the Crystal River in Florida, munching on hyacinth and floating with the fish. But a noisy motorboat is churning by, and the mother tries to keep her baby safe. Full-color illustrations.

Four young coyotes harass the animals in a desert canyon until they run into a rattlesnake.

Discusses the life cycle, habitats, and behavior of rattlesnakes and depicts the different kinds.

Presents labeled pictures of the author's choices for birds with which boys and girls under five should be familiar.

All kinds of camouflage in animals, including seasonal changes, are explored in paintings and large-print text. Watercolor illustrations show young readers the clever ways animals hide, including deer, snowshoe hares, trout, and other animals with protective coloration.

A picture-book field guide that introduces with paintings & brief text 25 common species of fish.

A poetic and pictorial portrayal of the lovely things that happen at a brook as a mother deer and two fawns come to drink, fish leap, and sunlight sparkles on the water.

Presents tips on finding and observing various bugs, with blank pages provided for keeping records.

While their mother is away from the den, four little foxes play in the sunlight.

A dozen dolphins, led by the eldest member and her youngster, become stranded on a sandbar and must be helped to safety by humans.

The author describes and identifies winged predators, and explains why there are no feathers on a vulture's head, which bird is the deep-diving champ, and what makes an owl's wings perfectly silent in flight, in a text with fold-out pages.

On a rocky ledge, two baby mountain lions play and purr and meow under the protection of their mother.