Books with author Mary Martin Weyand

The wondrous interplay of flora, fauna, and land-forms within Sequoia National Park (and now Kings Canyon National Park, as well) brings us to explore the circle of life-feeding-life within these parks. We learn that an influx of beetles that were killing trees gave way to the arrival of an army of blue jays that consumed the beetles and rescued the trees. Walter Fry, then Sequoia National Park superintendent found out that we really didn't need to set fire to the beetle-infested trees after all. As John Muir aptly put it, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." Of Giants and Grizzlies, Sequoia 9. A Circle of Life invites us to better understand the ecological impacts of one entity upon another and still another. Secondary reading material for mid-grade students studying California history and natural science. Part 9 of a 10 part audio video hyperlink enhanced eBook which includes access to free printable teacher guides.

This is a book about a gecko that is traveling to a pond to eat the good bugs. He changes colors on his adventure. Children will love trying to find the gecko on the different colors he hops upon. This is a beginning reading book. Whether you read this to your child or they learn to read it by themselves, they will love the adventures of this colorful gecko.