Kovacs, Deborah

Presents profiles of 60 children's authors with suggested activities to extend their work.

Includes reproducible patterns and directions for making twenty-five mini-books, appropriate for kindergarten through third grade, covering special days, plants and animals, and folk and fairy tales, with five blank book patterns in which students may put their own words and pictures.

A book of interesting facts about dolphins, with many color photos.

Sneaking away from home on a midnight fishing voyage, two brothers find themselves struggling to keep their boat afloat in the middle of a violent river storm.

Describes the work of researchers on Barro Colorado Island in Panama who are studying the behavior of the various species of bats living in the rain forests there.

Brief biographies of a variety of authors and illustrators from different parts of the world accompany a description of their work.

Presents profiles of 25 authors with suggested activities for each.