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Books with author Jennifer Owings Dewey

  • At the Edge of the Pond

    Jennifer Dewey

    Library Binding (Little Brown & Co, Sept. 1, 1991)
    Explores the levels of life in a pond from the muddy shore to the murky bottom
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  • The Shaman and the Water Serpent

    Jennifer Owings Dewey, Benton Yazzie

    Hardcover (University of New Mexico Press, May 16, 2007)
    The Shaman and the Water Serpent is a book for children that demonstrates how ancient Puebloan peoples carried out their daily lives. Renowned children's author Jennifer Owings Dewey writes about the Puebloan peoples' relationships with animals, and Benton Yazzie recreates the rock art depictions of familiar animals: deer, antelope, and rabbits. Characters include the shaman, a man with supernatural power who provides insights into the mysterious world of gods and the spirits. Men and boys honor the animals they hunt by singing songs to their spirits, while the women, children, and old people wait hungrily back in the village. A drought has set in and the villagers wonder when the rains will return. As they hope for rain, the women and girls tend to the corn and the men sharpen their arrow points for the next hunt. The water serpent, a revered animal, travels along the riverbanks and is thought by the Puebloan peoples to be just the animal to coax the rain back onto their dry fields.
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  • Family Ties: Raising Wild Babies

    Jennifer Dewey

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Oct. 1, 1998)
    A thoughtful collection of true stories focuses on the habits and habitats of coyotes, owls, bears, bobcats, and ravens, and what they must do to survive, showing the amazing bonds that exist within animal families.
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  • Can You Find Me? a Book About Animal Camouflage

    Jennifer Dewey

    Library Binding (Scholastic, Aug. 1, 1989)
    Illustrations and text describe how fish, insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals use camouflage to find food, avoid attack, and stay alive in the enemy-filled animal kingdom.
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  • A Night and Day in the Desert

    Jennifer Dewey

    Library Binding (Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1991)
    Depicts the unique environment of the desert, with its plant and animal life and special climatic conditions
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  • Bedbugs in Our House: True Tales of Insect, Bug, and Spider Discovery

    Jennifer Dewey

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Sept. 1, 1997)
    The author presents interesting facts about insects, bugs, and spiders in chapters that describe her own experiences living with and studying these creatures when she was a child
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  • Once I Knew a Spider

    Jennifer Owings Dewey, Jean Cassels

    Library Binding (Walker Childrens, April 1, 2002)
    One day a spider appeared on the window ledge outside the glass. Right away she began to spin a web. Thus begins an inspiring true storyโ€•a story of an expectant mother who develops an unexpected relationship with the spider that makes a home outside her window. As the summer and the mother's pregnancy progress, the spider is beginning its own circle of life. From its first graceful web, to its creation of a delicate egg sac, the spider lives through the fall season, and what should be the end of its life. But by a small miracle of nature, the orb weaver endures the snow and the winter, and stays with her eggs until spring. This gentle story with strikingly detailed illustrations reveals the exceptional magic in the everyday world, and how it can touch our lives. The parallel stories of the human mother and the spider show how stopping to observe nature can allow you to witness everyday miracles. Additional in-depth information on spiders is included in an afterword.
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  • Wildlife Rescue: The Work of Kathleen Ramsay

    Jennifer Owings Dewey, Don MacCarter

    School & Library Binding (Topeka Bindery, Jan. 15, 1999)
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  • Animal Architecture

    Jennifer Dewey

    Library Binding (Orchard Books, March 1, 1991)
    Explores the kinds of habitats animals build for themselves.
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  • Poison Dart Frogs

    Jennifer Dewey

    School & Library Binding (San Val, Feb. 15, 2001)
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  • Can You Find Me a Book About Camouflage

    Jennifer Dewey

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc, March 15, 1989)
    Illustrations and text describe how fish, insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals use camouflage to find food, avoid attack, and stay alive in the enemy-filled animal kingdom.
  • Creatures Underneath

    Jennifer Dewey

    Paperback (Red Crane Books, May 1, 1994)
    Describes the characteristics and habits of a variety of animals and insects that live below the surface of the earth and in our homes
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