The award-winning author of Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens examines the work of zoo veterinarians, focusing on such cases as a tiger with a toothache, a gorilla with a cold, and a tortoise with a broken bone. Reprint.
Hardcover
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, Jan. 26, 1987)
Examines the closely linked relationships at work in the pollination process from the flowers that make the food to the bees and other animals who carry the pollen, and explains what happens when the cycle is interrupted
With amazing color photographs and a precise, factual text, Lauber's beautiful photo-essay shows how animals adapt to places where they live...She shows vivid examples how the plants and animals 'fit together' to help each other survive through the day and through the seasons...Lauber's final plea for the environment grows right out of her story-"Science Star" review, Booklist