Judy Allen

Introduces the life cycle of a butterfly, showing how it changes from an egg to a chrysalis to a butterfly.

Introduces the life cycle of a spider, describing how it hatches, develops, spins webs, and feeds.

When the villagers hire a famous hunter to kill the tiger rumored to live in the woods, only one young boy wishes to protect the animal; and, in fact, the hunter knows more than one way to shoot a tiger.

While on an expedition to western China with his father, twelve-year-old Jake sees a panda but when he tries to take its picture the camera breaks and no one believes his story.

An illustrated anthology of poetry and prose about the natural world, by such authors as Rudyard Kipling, Ovid, and Tolstoy.