Jan Thornhill

For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. In this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that "weighed as much as a sack...

Introduces the letters of the alphabet through illustrations ofa variety of North American animals and brief rhyming text. Descriptive notes about each animal are included at the end.

Josephine identifies herself as a human, a mammal, an animal and a living being, in a book that helps readers recognize the similarities among all living things and place humans as part of the natural world.

"When Sammy, a young Wilson's warbler, wakes up one frosty August morning near the Arctic Circle, he instinctively knows that it's time to make his first migratory journey south to Panama. But there's one problem where's Panama?"--Amazon.com.

When Kyle the sloth has to go to the bathroom, he must make the long trip down to the forest floor all alone, but soon finds lots of friends along his journey.