Joanne Ryder
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School is in session! But this is no ordinary kindergarten class. Meet sixteen young giant panda cubs at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong Nature Preserve. The cubs are raised together from infancy in a protected setting, where they grow strong. Under the watchful eyes of the scientists and workers, the cubs learn skills that will help prepare them to be released into the wild.
6) Earth dance
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Readers are asked to picture themselves as the earth, turning in space, facing the light, feeling the green things growing and the oceans shifting.
7) Winter white
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Because they never give up hope and always want to change the present into something better, Fox and Lemming annually trick Winter into trading snow for sun.
12) Bears out there
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Snug in the comfort of her home, a girl imagines the woods full of bears that eat and play and watch the night come, just as she does.
13) Wild birds
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The birds that glide through the sky, hop through the grass, and sing on the fence gradually come to feed from a child's hand.
15) Chipmunk song
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A lyrical description of a chipmunk as it goes about its activities in late summer, prepares for winter, and settles in till spring.
17) The goodbye walk
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At the end of the summer, a child revisits the special places she has enjoyed on her vacation.
18) Without words
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A poetic exploration of the ways humans and animals communicate and interact with a touch, a look, or an action.
20) Shark in the sea
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One fall day a great white shark, hungry and alone, weaves his way about as he watches, smells, listens, and waits for someone to become his meal.