April Pulley Sayre

Bumblebee queens begin the spring alone, but can create colonies of hundreds throughout the year. Follow one queen as she finds a nest, gathers nectar, lays eggs and tends her colony through spring, summer, and fall.

"Simple text and photographs explore the science behind the transformation that trees undergo in the fall." --

From before the time she hatches until she returns to the same beach to lay eggs of her own, a sea turtle is helped to escape from danger many times by different human hands.

"A photographic non-fiction picture book about the wonder of snowfall and the winter water cycle"--

Presents a rhyme and information about a variety of freshwater fish found in North America north of Mexico.

Photographs of vegetables and rhyming text celebrate vegetables in all their colorful and tasty variety.

"Leaves and bacteria, insects and fish, bears and people, too--we're all part of one big circle of growing and eating and living"--Inside front flap.

Follows a bear from the time she emerges from her den in April after four months without food, through months of eating fish, ants, and huckleberries, to midwinter when the arrival of two cubs interrupts her long winter's rest. Includes facts about brown (grizzly) bears of the Yellowstone National Park/Glacier National Park region.

In fun verse, the author creates a rhyming story about different fruits you can find at a fruit stand.