Books in Nature series

The Colorado Nature Set offers the best in wildlife and plant identification for The Centennial State. The set includes three Pocket Naturalist Guides to Colorado, Trees & Wildflowers, Birds, and Wildlife, and is attractively packaged in an acetate bag. The beautifully illustrated folding guides highlight well over 300 familiar and unique species and include ecoregion maps featuring prominent wildlife-viewing areas and botanical sanctuaries. Laminated for durability, Pocket Naturalist Guides are lightweight, pocket-sized sources of portable information and ideal for field use by novices and experts alike. Made in the USA.www.waterfordpress.com

Celebrate the winter wonderland in your own backyard this Christmas with a Nature Cat storybook, a perfect gift that comes complete with press-out ornaments and holiday cards!Join Hal, Squeeks, Daisy, Ronald, and Nature Cat in a new picture book based on their hour-long holiday special.When Nature Cat gets in the Christmas spirit, he starts making his holiday celebration as big, shiny, and loud as possible. He even decorates the forest and accidentally bothers the animals! Though after our hero falls asleep on Christmas Eve, he is visited by three friendly spirits, as played by his pals. Together, they visit the future, present, and long ago past when Nature Cat was a mere Nature Kitten. Will the adventure remind Nature Cat what really makes his heart merry? This full-color, hardback picture book comes with 6 press-out ornaments and 6 press-out cards that let little ones give others the gift of nature adventures! Nature Cat airs twice daily on PBS!Once his family leaves for the day, Fred the house cat transforms into Nature Cat, backyard explorer extraordinaire! Each episode in this hilarious PBS Kids series follows Nature Cat and his pals as they embark on action-packed adventures, perilous missions, and nature investigations packed with silly humor and "a ha" discovery moments.

In this beautifully written story set in the north woods of Minnesota, four healthy wolf pups—Leader, Sniffer, Runner, and Thinker—are born one spring. And then one final, undersized pup emerges—Runt. Despite his size, Runt manages to keep up with his brothers and sisters and learn the ways of the pack. But he finds it impossible to please his father, the pack’s leader, and gradually withdraws from the others. When he ventures into forbidden human territory, Runt at last comes to understand his mistakes and to recognize his own worth. Award-winning author Marion Dane Bauer combines her gift for evocative writing with her in-depth knowledge of wolves to create a compact tale that has the power of an epic. Like the best animal stories, it reflects our own world and shows us what it means to be alive. Afterword.

The Rocky Mountain Nature Set offers the best in wildlife and plant identification for this spectacular region. Our three popular Pocket Naturalist Guides to the Rocky Mountains – Trees & Wildflowers, Birds, and Wildlife – are attractively packaged and value-priced for savings when purchased as a set. Highlighting over 300 species of animals and plants, these beautifully illustrated guides include ecoregion maps that feature prominent wildlife-viewing areas and botanical sanctuaries. Laminated for durability, Pocket Naturalist Guides are lightweight, pocket-sized sources of information and ideal for field use by natural science and outdoor recreation professionals, nature lovers, and visitors to the Rocky Mountain region. Made in the USA.www.waterfordpress.com

Samantha, a lone sea lion, somehow ends up in Florida’s waters. Two wild dolphins, Diver and Dodger, befriend her. The three play and fish together almost every day. One day the dolphins invite Samantha to go with them to meet some children who live beside a salt-water pond with their mother, a veterinarian, who runs a marine mammal rescue center. Samantha is afraid if she goes with them, they will capture her and put her in a cage. She soon learns the children will not harm her. While on her way to play with the children, Samantha gets caught in a drift net. The dolphins, the children and the veterinarian rescue her. Now Samantha, Diver and Dodger swim in a pod with their friends, the children.

The Southwest Desert Nature Set offers the best in wildlife and plant identification for this scenic area. The set includes three Pocket Naturalist Guides to the Southwest Desert: Plants, Birds, and Life, and is attractively packaged in an acetate bag. The beautifully illustrated folding guides highlight well over 300 familiar and unique species and include ecoregion maps featuring prominent wildlife-viewing areas and botanical sanctuaries. Laminated for durability, Pocket Naturalist Guides are lightweight, pocket-sized sources of portable information and ideal for field use by novices and experts alike. Made in the USA.

Years after it was published, Stranger in the Woods remains a bestseller, with more than one-million copies in print and repeated appearances on the bestseller lists. Winner of numerous awards, including the 2001 International Reading Association's highest honour, this charming tale uses wildlife photography to tell the story of animals' reactions to a snowman who appears in the woods after a winter storm.