Best Selling Books by Joanne Ryder

Everywhere -- even in streets and backyards -- there are wild birds. Swirling through the air, speckling the treetops, tiptoeing through the grass, wild birds are near, watching you watch them. During the bright warm days, they sometimes stay and share a place with you. And in winter, if you care for them, wild birds may flutter even nearer -- till you feel like a wild one, too. Wild Birds invites you to look and listen and to enjoy these lively flyers who share this ever-changing world with you.

Sometimes--with a gesture, a touch, a look--humans and animals can bridge the gap between their worlds in ways that reach deeper than words ever could. In a perfect partnership of poetry and color images, author Joanne Ryder and photographer Barbara Sonneborn have created a moving portrait of humans and animals together. An elephant and a human embrace, arm and trunk entwining; a giggly boy and a wiggly pig spend a playful moment together; a dolphin and a human swimmer move through the water in a joyful dance. In Ryder''s words, "each finds a way to touch, to move, to play, sharing pleasure with each other, learning how much we really are the same." This remarkable album is one that readers of all ages will return to again and again. With its compelling words and unforgettable pictures, it reinforces our precious sense of connection to all the living creatures with whom we share our planet. colour throughout

Relates how the great white bears that live at the top of the world came to live on ice and snow.

Softly realistic illustrations perfectly complement this vivid yet warmly childlike story, as a small boy imagines the wanderings and playful antics of the bears he is sure inhabit the wilderness around his home. Full color.

One fall day a great white shark, hungry and alone, glides unseen, watching and waiting for someone unwary to become his meal.

The reader imagines how it feels to be a snail.

A child is transformed into a Tyrannosaurus rex for a day and discovers what it is like to be a killing machine and the largest meat-eating animal to have hunted on land.

Imagine climbing your favorite tree, speckled in sunlight and shadows, then changing...into a mighty spotted cat in a faraway rain forest. You are a jaguar hidden in a world of green. Giant trees stretch upward, where flowers bloom, birds soar, and butterflies glide above your reach. Jaguar in the Rain Forest invites you into the lush, tropical world of one of the most magnificent hunters on earth. Be a jaguar just for a day- prowling the forest floor; crossing a flowing river in search of prey; filling the darkness with your deep, grunting call; then, silent and deadly, stalking a creature that never knows you are there. In this dramatic addition to the Just for a Day series, award-winning author Joanne Ryder and nature artist Michael Rothman once again imagine the life of a wild animal in its own natural world. Meticulously researched and marvelously evocative, their book invites you to live among the creatures of the rain forest- just for a day.

Illustrations and poetic text describe the wings of an owl, a hummingbird, a butterfly, an eagle, a bat, and other creatures and their different experiences of flight.

Transformed into a bird for a day, a child joins a flock of wild geese in glorious flight.

At the end of the summer, a child revisits the special places she has enjoyed on her vacation.

Jenny experiences the wonder of seeing and hearing the woods fill up with humming cicadas, and seventeen years later she returns with her young son to share that experience.

Mama Mouse teaches her little mouse how to tell where home is by reminding her of its special smells, sounds, and textures.

A collection of poems about nature and wildlife, spanning all the seasons of the year.

Rose''s family spends a fun-filled day at the beach celebrating Uncle Tony''s birthday.

Describes, in simple text and illustrations, some of the unique characteristics of trees.

While sitting in science class on a Friday afternoon, a student watches all kinds of sea creatures move about the room.

A young girl enjoys her day on the beach despite the rain.

Although Simon loves spending the winter deep underground digging long tunnels, even a mole eventually starts anticipating spring.