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

"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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.