Books with author Irene Brady

The Southern Swamp Explorer ... your "MUST TAKE" guide for visiting any southern swamp or bog in the U.S. Did you ever wish you could explore deep inside a swamp without: ~getting soaking wet ~becoming totally lost ~being scared out of your wits ~getting all mucky ~or being eaten by an alligator? Well, now you can. The Southern Swamp Explorer is your ticket into the real life of a swamp. You can read it in bed, from your hammock, lying lazily in the grass, or sitting at your desk. You can live the "wild" life right along with the swamp's wild creatures, and not even get a mosquito bite. OR, you can take this book with you when you go swamping. It will answer your questions and make you want to know more ~ much more (and you'll probably find the answers right there in the book.) The unusual format features an illustrated, ongoing, real-life fictional narrative of the interconnected daily lives of more than forty swamp creatures ~ birds, reptiles, mammals, fish, insects and plants, on every right-hand page. Facing each story page are illustrated side-bars crammed full of cool info and fun facts (set to the side to avoid slowing down the story). Lavish illustrations illuminate everything: animal tracks, frogs maturing, carnivorous plants, floating islands, baby mammals and hatchling birds, animal skulls, hatching mosquitoes, turtle IDs, cypress knees, spider webs, crappie nests, spittle bugs, lizard chin flaps, butterfly cocoons ~ and much, much more. The Southern Swamp Explorer is a book any nature lover will love and cherish forever.

As the two new-born beaver kits Cassie and Paddle enter the world, they are welcomed by their mother's soft crooning and gentle grooming. Confined at first to the inside of the lodge, it isn't long before they are exploring the underwater tunnels and deep waters of the beaver pond. The kits' instincts take hold as they follow their parents' example, helping to collect and store food, repair the dam and recognize the warning signs for danger. When heavy spring rains destroy their lodge and dam, Cassie and Paddle are on their own, for trapped by the rising waters they are carried from their home and family – thrust out into the wide world to begin their own new beaver colony. The book links the young beavers to the pulsing throb of the surrounding pond and forest in a gentle story of beaver life in the wilderness. In this delightful book, Irene Brady sensitively tells the story of the life cycle of the beaver, from birth to the giving of birth, through evocative text and delicate, appealing illustrations. In order that both be true-to-life, the author/artist spent countless hours through a whole year observing, sketching and journaling at beaver ponds.

In a cave in the canyon, a bobcat drowses while her three kittens wrestle playfully. High above them, a big-eared bat and her tiny batling hang by their toes from the cavern's rocky ceiling. In the trees and meadows of the canyon other small creatures are also growing and learning the things they must know to live and grow. Watch as the bear cubs learn to find wild honey, and young squirrels take their first real look at the leafy world of their oak tree. The deer leaves her fawns hidden in the long grass while predators pass by, and the red-tailed hawk brings a snack to her squawking chicks. From early spring when the bobcats are born, to the first snowfall when the bear cubs begin their long winter sleep, we follow the lives of these young wild creatures in their forest home. Pre-teens love Wild Babies - but it's perfect for reading to preschoolers, and adults admit to enjoying it, too. There are pictures on every page, many of them is lovely sepia tones.