Paladino, Catherine

Focuses on eight rare breeds of endangered farm animals, imported from all parts of the world and raised on small family farms.

Discusses the problems created by the use of pesticides to grow food crops and the benefits of organic farming.

Text and photographs follow two sheep shearers through their day of rounding up sheep, shearing them, and bundling the fleeces, and establish connections between the fleeces and the wool making up many articles of clothing.

A collection of poems celebrating nature, by such authors as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Myra Cohn Livingston.

Using one blackfooted penguin as an example, describes the birth, growth, and nurture of the species.