Chronicles a year in a black bear's life, beginning with her emerging from hibernation in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains during the spring thaw in February.

During December and January, a young mole in Kansas spends her waking hours searching for food in her network of underground tunnels.

From the most celebrated children's nature writer of our time comes a posthumous new novel in the tradition of her Newbery award-winning "Julie of the Wolves" In 1848 in Barrow, Alaska, a young Eskimo boy witnesses a rare sight--the birth of a bowhead, or ice whale, that he calls Siku. But when he unwittingly guides Yankee whalers to a pod of bowhead whales, all the whales are killed. For this act, the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the...

226 PAGES ILLUS. $16.95. 93-27738. WHEN JULIE RETURNS TO HER FATHER'S ESKIMO VILLAGE, SHE STRUGGLES TO FIND A WAY TO SAVE HER BELOVED WOLVES IN A CHANGING ARCTIC WORLD AND SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG SIBERIAN MAN. LIBRI FOUNDATION. DN

NN ILLUS. $15.95. 99-010501. ILLUS: TED RAND. WHEN HIS OLDER SISTER JULIE BRINGS HOME TWO SMALL WOLF PUPS, AMAROQ TAKES CARE OF THE ONE CALLED NUTIK AND GROWS TO LOVE IT, EVEN THOUGH JULIE TELLS HIM IT CANNOT STAY . LIBRI FOUNDATION GRANT. DN

Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.

The animals on a prairie wildlife refuge sense an approaching tornado and seek protection before it touches down and destroys everything in its path.

Presents the intersecting stories of a boy's quest for independence during a stay with his grandfather in the Colorado Rockies, and the maturation of a bird that lives in the waterfalls of a mountain stream.