Alice Lightner Hopf Books
Misplaced animals, and other living creatures
Explores the ways in which man and nature have used water, wind, weather, and wings to spread plants and animals around the world with good and bad results.
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Strange Sex Lives in the Animal Kingdom
Discusses how organisms ranging from protozoa to mammals reproduce.
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The Thursday toads
Scientists discover an elixir of youth on a planet inhabited by poisonous toads.
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Whose house is it?
Presents the life cycle of various animals which inhabit a prairie dog burrow including the prairie dog, rattlesnake, burrowing owl, and kit fox.
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Chickens and their wild relatives
Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, and history of the domestic chicken and its wild relatives, including the grouse, pheasant, prairie chicken, and ptarmigan.
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Biography of a rhino
Moved to a national park in Uganda in an effort to protect her disappearing species, a young white rhino becomes a pet of the rangers and tourists until it is time for her to have a family.
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Biography of an ostrich
Describes the physical characteristics and habits of an ostrich living on the African veld.
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Biography of an ant
Traces the life cycle of an ant and describes the activities of an anthill by following one young adult ant through a year.
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Wild cousins of the cat
Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and environment of different members of the cat family including the lynx, lion, cougar, caracal, and many others.
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