Best Selling Books by Joanne Ryder

Tucked into bed after a long day of playing, Anna’s imagination brings her to her favorite park—enhanced with magical qualities she’s never seen before—in Joanne Ryder’s exciting bedtime tale. When the park lamps glow, Anna knows it’s time to leave the old stone lion, the pigeons, and the shy goldfish that keep her company during the daylight. As the bedtime approaches and her father shuts off her light, Anna’s imagination takes flight and brings her back to the park she loves. But in the cover of night, the park is now magical and filled with friendly crocodiles, energetic monkeys, and a lion who takes Anna to his secret waterfall. “With flattened perspectives and variegated tones, Schwartz paints, like Rousseau, a primitive world of friendly beasts and tangled vegetation.” – School Library Journal

This newest title in the popular series invites readers into the world of the endangered great white shark for better insight into this mighty predator of the sea.

Welcome friends, welcome all, welcome to the Big Bear Ball! Deep in the forest, under a full moon and starry sky, bears sway and stomp to the big bear beat. Wake the moles and rouse the foxes! Even a boisterous gator goes for a spin. Who can resist joining in the jump-jiving, splish-splashing midnight fun? Joanne Ryder''s toe-tapping verse and Steven Kellogg''s jubilant illustrations will set feet moving, fingers snapping, arms swinging, and bodies jumping. Don''t waste a second -- leave your two left feet at the shore and come dance until the break of day!

"A child reader [is] transformed into a sea otter and taken on an imaginative day trip....Ryder''s poetically imagistic text is powerfully partnered by Rothman''s robust...artwork, which depicts aspects of a sea otter''s day in its natural habitat....This experience is potent, informative, and transporting....Lovely for nature studies or for a flight of fantasy into the natural world."--Booklist.

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.

In a lyrical tale, the young narrator visits the cabin that her grandfather built to rediscover the familiar woodland haunts they used to explore together, and even though she now wanders alone, she feels a comforting sense of oneness with the forest. Reprint.

"Ryder again takes readers'' imaginations into the body of another species....A boy awakens and, touched by the sun, changes into a green anole....With its precise, poetic language and well-composed illustrations, this is another successful picture book in a consciousness-expanding series."--Booklist.

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

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.

A kitten explores a garden and discovers its many delights.

Bambi''s forest home and its animal residents grow and adapt to the ever-changing seasons

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

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.

The fog rolls in, causing anxiety to the small meadow animals now hidden from each other until the nighthawk communicates a comforting message to them all from above.

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

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

Describes what it would be like to live in a little house by the sea and frolic with seals and crabs and other sea creatures.

When tiny spiders burst out of their eggs, the dance of the spider''s life cycle begins.

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.

A kitten explores a garden and discovers its many delights.

Mama Skunk takes her children on a nighttime walk and shows them stars, fireflies, a stream, the moon, and other things they haven''t seen before.

The true story of three-month-old polar bears who were orphaned in Alaska and then brought to a new home at the San Diego Zoo.

During her visit to Grandma''s, Sara observes the activities of turtles, birds, and flying squirrels.

A collection of poems that portray the meadow and its creatures from morning till night.