Jacqueline Briggs Martin

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations. Snow in Vermont is as common as dirt. Why would anyone want ot photograph it? From the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley thinks of ice crystals as small miracles, and he determines that one day his camera will capture for others their extraordinary beauty. Often misunderstood in his time, he took pictures that...

The story of former basketball star and current urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, whose vision of gardening from abandoned urban sites led to a grassroots feeding craze.

Chef Alice Waters takes her friends on a tour of healthy eating.

Describes the L.A. street cook's life, including working in his family's restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant.

Jacqueline Briggs Martin has received a Caldecott Medal, ALA Notable honors, and Bulletin Blue Ribbons for her endearing children's books. Isabel and the Pig go with Grandfather when he is using his gift to find water. But one day, Grandfather believes he's lost his gift. When the Pig goes missing, Isabel is afraid he will never return. Without Grandfather's gift for finding what cannot be seen, how will they ever get the Pig back?

"Once upon a time a creek burbled up and tumbled across a prairie valley. It was filled with insects and brook trout that ate them, frogs that chirruped and birds watching for bugs and fish. This is a true story about a man named Mike who went looking for that creek long after it was buried under fields of corn. It is the story of how a creek can be brought back to life, and with it a whole world of nature. In the words of award-winning author Jacqueline...

Oona is the last duck to the pond every morning, but when her frog friend Roy reminds her how gifted she is with gadgets, Oona gets busy inventing crafty ways to get there first.

When a case of chicken measles steals the voice of the blue-headed rooster who used to crow all day long, his friend, a plain brown hen, brings musicians to remind him to sing and save him from becoming "quiet rooster stew."

Mountain man Washburn insists on looking on the bright side of things, even as disaster after disaster befalls him.

A grumpy fisherman vows to eat his socks if he can't catch Oscar, the craftiest bait-stealing catfish in the river.