CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 30, 1995
"The book is edifying, if not particularly engrossing; David Klass's California Blue (1994) is aimed at older readers, but wraps similar themes in a stronger story. (Fiction. 9-12)"
An out-of-work logger amazes his family by caring for a rare spotted owl chick in this informative, agenda-laden story.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 30, 1995
"Get Off Our Train (1990), but has powerful moments, including a convincing message, poetically told. (Picture book. 5+)"
"I am going to tell you a story....It's a story about a river," says a storyteller to several children in a boat in this tale.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 30, 1994
"But there is something in all the tales, each of which is wonderfully illustrated by Merrill's paintings and told by George with grace and sensitivity. (Nonfiction. 8-12)"
Well-known naturalist and author George writes an inspiring celebration of ten beloved animals and the feats that made them famous.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 30, 1994
"Interesting Eskimo village lore, and more lupine detail, but the unifying theme here—Miyax saving the wolves—is not nearly as arresting as the original. (Fiction. 10+)"
This sequel to 1973 Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen, the girl who traveled across the tundra with her adoptive wolf pack.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 1993
"Six conservation organizations are to benefit. (Anthology. 6-12)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 31, 1993
"The Indians thought of it as a Green Corn Dance"), this beautiful book brings fresh insight and a fairer balance to the traditional story. (Nonfiction/Picture book. 5+)"
In a lucid, graceful narrative that begins with the arrival of Plymouth Rock (a unique European specimen left by a glacier "In a time so long ago that only the rocks remember") and that describes the Patuxets' settlement, its devastation by white men's disease, and Squanto's tragic captivity before going on to the Puritan venture, George returns—in specific, unsentimental detail—to the real historical events, quietly emphasizing the Native Americans' relationship with the land and the many things they taught the newcomers about using its bounty.
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