Books with author Dennis Noel

Santa Barbara Fire Song: Three stories of wild fire. Wildfire is a riveting spectacle of smoke, wind and chaos of flames and disaster. These three stories give perspective to young people, from early childhood through young adult, caught up in a fictional Santa Barbara, CA fire. They build from the fairy tale “Black Belly Frog and the Fire” with an assault of the sudden discovery of a rushing fire and the loss of home and threat to life. In “Gel’s Ants” a budding entomologist makes discoveries far beyond the harvester ants she is investigating. “Canyon Fire” comes back to the moment of escaping the fast moving wildfire and the awful realization the protagonist might have started it all.

Late one night, Wilbur hears a tapping at his window. There, standing in the yard outside his window, is a baby apatosaur. Knowing that the dinosaur can't stay, Wilbur begins the long journey back through time to take him home. Bravely facing a fierce saber-toothed cat and narrowly escaping a monstrous Tyrannosaurus rex, the two new friends trudge through the Ice Age and past the Cretaceous period, finally arriving at the Jurassic period. Once his long-necked friend is safely home, Wilbur makes the journey forward to his own time atop the largest, most spectacular dinosaur he's ever seen.

Dinosaurs disappeared completely from the Earth many, many years ago...or did they?An ALA Notable Children's BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year!Millions of years ago, dinosaurs roamed the shores of Mesozoic seas. They lay eggs in the shade of ginkgo trees, and as time went on, dinosaurs grew, and grew, and grew.There were so many different species of dinosaurs. Large, monstrous, and fearsome, they ruled the earth. Until gradually, there were no dinosaurs left.But they didn't disappear completely. Some dinosaurs had feathers, which grew and grew...until all through the skies were hundreds of species of birds, which flew and flew.From the bestselling creator of Dinosaur Dream Dennis Nolan comes a poetic nonfiction picture book about how dinosaurs evolved into birds.A Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding MeritAn ILA-CBC Children's Choice!

On a warm night, a band of hunters sets out on a journey. As they travel over hills, through thickets of trees, and around mountains, nothing will keep them from their ultimate goal. What that goal is may surprise you.Dennis Nolan's remarkable, imaginative illustrations lead the way in this wordless picture book about an epic journey.A Neal Porter Book

Androcles, a runaway slave, is befriended by a lion when he removes a huge thorn from its paw. For years the two live to-gether in the desert, until soldiers capture Androcles and are ordered to throw him to the beasts. Led into the grand arena, Androcles falls to his knees, accepting his fate, but then he looks into the eyes of the lion and recognizes his old friend. Amid cheers from the crowd, Androcles and the lion are set free. The earliest version of the well-known tale, Apion’s eyewitness account, is the source for this dramatic retelling.

On a warm night, a band of hunters sets out on a journey. As they travel over hills, through thickets of trees, and around mountains, nothing will keep them from their ultimate goal. What that goal is may surprise you.Dennis Nolan's remarkable, imaginative illustrations lead the way in this wordless picture book about an epic journey.A Neal Porter Book