Wendell Minor

Christmas trees come in all shapes and sizes and can be found in almost any setting, but there is only one "best" Christmas tree.

"An introduction to diurnal (daytime) and nocturnal (nighttime) animals"-- Provided by publisher.

Pictures and rhyming text present some of the many extraordinary things bears can do. Includes facts about bears as well as related websites.

Standing tall above the tree line, Sequoia stretches his ancient arms and gathers clouds to him. He watches as days, seasons, years pass by. His branches are home to owls and choirs of frogs. Beneath his broad canopy, a world grows. This is his story.

A simple description of the life of Abraham Lincoln, presented from his point of view.

Eight-year-old Johnny, who lives in Arizona but feels a special connection to his grandfather's 265-year-old farm house in Washington, Connecticut, is overjoyed when his family spends Christmas there.

An account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.

Tells the story of Lonesome George, the giant tortoise who was the last of his species and lived to be one hundred years old in the Galapagos Islands.

While visiting his grandmother on Cape Cod, nine-year-old Thomas encounters a ship's cabin boy from centuries past.