Gill, Shelley

A young girl's dream to swim with a blue whale may finally come true when her mother, a writer, arranges for them to accompany her friends who are marine biologists on a research trip to Mexico.

Photographs and illustrations describes the environment, wildlife, cities, and people of the state of Alaska.

Describes how fish, birds, insects and other creatures lay eggs to reproduce and tells about some stories and customs involving eggs.

Eighty-eight-year-old explorer Norman Vaughan revisits the Queen Maude Mountains in Antarctica to climb the mountain named for him 65 years earlier by Admiral Richard E. Byrd; twelve-year-old adventurer Merrick Johnston becomes the youngest person ever to scale Denali, North America's highest peak.

Rhyming account of a little girl's quandary as she tries to decide what she can get with her dollar in a candy shop, toy store, deli, and pet department.

Swimmer, the Chinook salmon, journeys over 10,000 miles to complete her life cycle, while Katya, the native Alaskan girl, comes of age in her small village along the coast.

Find out the facts about Alaska's three bears--the white, the brown, and the black--as they search for a special home in America's last great wilderness.

Offers both new and old Mother Goose nursery rhymes with a northern flair.

A story about Alaska's 1,049 mile sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome through the eyes of the lead dog Kiana.