Ring, Elizabeth

Dogs of all breeds (and mixed breeds) can be trained to be SAR dogs. This book describes these nose-to-the-ground rescue workers and the organizations that direct their work.

Text and photographs reveal how K-9 teams work and how dogs are selected and trained to perform police work.

Describes several plants that remind us in some way of animals, including the foxglove, pussy willow, skunk cabbage, and snapdragon.

Loon and his mate protect their chicks from curious people, egg-hunting eagles and hawks, and ferocious pike throughout a summer at Northwood Lake.

Text and photos show how rot and all the tiny organisms that cause it maintain the cycle of life.

Text and photographs examine the many ways dogs use their keen sense of smell to help law enforcement personnel in all kinds of detective work.

Describes the work of dogs that are specially trained to assist blind, deaf, or disabled people.

An orphaned deer mouse is found by children, placed in the nest of a white-footed mouse, and raised as part of the white-footed mouse family.

Lyrical text and exceptional close-up photographs combine to create a unique presentation of the life cycle of the cecropia moth. Additional facts about these moths are presented in a special reference section at the end.

A biography of the biologist focusing on her childhood in Pennsylvania, her growing interest as an adult in environmental concerns, and the importance of her book "Silent Spring" in exposing the environmental harm done by pesticides.