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> A timeline story of the Nash-a-way river of Massachusettes and New Hampshire. This story is told over 6 centuries as the river becomes the idyllic home of the Indian people, changed to English hands, developed a factory town, and became a polluted stream in the mid 1960s. The story also illustrates how a river is turned back into a valuable natural resource. > In picture and poem the picture of what a prairie is emerges as the story is told. Those who have never lived or seen a prairie will gain an understanding of its magnificence. > Here is a true story of one scary Sunday when a tornado came to the prairie. A family is left without any belongings after a tornado tears apart their home. When the brother asks, "Where are we going to live?" Dad answers, "Together." > Through picture and poem students are introduced to the Heartland, where the farmer is king---but over everything, Nature reigns supreme. > In this majestic poem, and through the pictures of Wendell Minor the multitude of plants and animals that call the Sierra Nevada home come to life. This book portrays a unique vision of the glory of our world. > These are the stories of the first Americans. Through these legends children are taught respect for those who first lived in this land. They will see dancing and hear singing, and imagine the stories being told in a circle, in the dark of winter around a warm fire. It is in this connection that it is taught that everything has a way of circling around, again and again. > Pictures inscribed and painted on stone are scattered throughout the landscape of the southwestern United States. This book introduces young people to the beauty and mystery of rock art and suggests some answers to the intriguing puzzles it poses. > This Cheyenne legend tells how the North Star and the giant water dipper were made. It also gives valuable factual information about the Cheyenne and how their culture lived on the prairie. Photographs and timelines help tell their story. > In the days before California became part of the United States, nearly every one of its many valleys was home to a separate Native American nation, each with different customs. Among the best-loved stories were tales of the ancient time when the world as we know it was created by Coyote and the other animals. The animals could talk. They asked questions. And they told about their dreams. The story that follows predicts a day when the land would be filled with many different kinds of people, whose ancestors would come not only from America but from Europe, Africa, and Asia. Today, as is well known, the Native American presence remains strong in California-which has also made room, as the story tells, for people from all parts of the earth. > This is an easy to read picture book of what a llama is. > This stunning photoessay gives young readers a glimpse of the lives of a vanishing people that live between the Andes mountains and the River of Rains. It creates an opportunity to understand and respect the ways of another culture and perhaps even to help it survive. ˆ Chucaro, Wild Pony of the Pampa, by Francis Kalnay (Troll) Pink certainly is an unusual color for a pony, and when Pedro spies Chucaro grazing on the Pampa he can hardly believe his eyes. He just has to have that pony for himself. Unfortunately, the estancerio's spoiled son is equally determined to own the pony. But the wisest gauchos know that ponies as special as Chucaro can never truly be owned. Chucaro alone will decide for himself which gaucho will have the privilege of riding him. > The desert is not the land that nature forgot. It's hot. It's dry. And it's a hard place to make a living. But more than 5,000 species of plants and animals have made desert (pan, sandy, rocky) lands their permanent home. Join in the search for desert babies in the Sahara, Australia, and the United States. > The ocean is a good place for plants and animals to be born. Most sea life does not live in the cold, ark depths. It crowds against the land. Even animals that live most of their lives far from dry land come to the shore to have their babies. Come and see what new life the tide has washed up on the beach. > Here is life in the Arctic taiga, tundra, and icecap. You will be surprised to discover that the far North is a good place to find babies. These are special babies-wrapped in packages of fur, feather, or fat to keep out the cold.
 * //__A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry__// (ISBN 0-15-200542-0, A Gulliver Green Book)
 * //__If you're not from the prairie__// by David Bouchard (ISBN 0-395-81148-1, Houghton Mifflin)
 * //__One Lucky Girl__// by George Ella Lyon illustrated by Irene Trivas (ISBN 0-7894-2613-7, D K Publishing, Inc.)
 * //__HEARTLAND__// by Diane Siebert (ISBN 0-06-4432876-4, Harper Trophy)
 * //__SIERRA__// by Diane Siebert (ISBN 0-06-443441-9, A Trophy Picture Book)
 * //__In A Circle Long Ago__// by Nancy Van Laan (ISBN 0-590-16383-3, Scholastic)
 * //__STORIES ON STONE__// by Jennifer Owings Dewey (ISBN 0-316-18211-7, Little, Brown and Company)
 * //__Quillworker, a Cheyenne Legend__// by Terri Cohlene and illustrated by Charles Reasoner (ISBN 0-8167-2358-3, Watermill Press)
 * //__The People With Five Fingers, A native Californian Creation Tale__// told by John Bierhorst with pictures by Robert Andrew Parker (ISBN 0-7614-5058-0, Marshall Cavendish)
 * //__Is Your Mama A Llama?__// By Steven Kellogg (ISBN 0-606-04945-2, Turtleback)
 * //__YANOMAMI__// By David M. Schwartz (ISBN 0-688-11157-2 TR, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books)
 * //__Desert Babies__//, by Kathy Darling, photographs by Tara Darling (ISBN 0-590-00523-5, Scholastic Inc.)
 * //__Seashore Babies__//, by Kathy Darling, photographs by Tara Darling (ISBN 0-590-03914-8, Scholastic Inc.)
 * //__Arctic Babies__//, by Kathy Darling, photographs by Tara Darling (ISBN 0-590-97441-6, Scholastic Inc.)