A celebration of bees: Helping children write poetry

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

Sponges are skeletons

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

Explains how sponges are animals that live in the ocean and how they are harvested and used by humans.

Baby Whales Drink Milk

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

Describes the behavior of the humpback whale, with an emphasis on the fact that it is a mammal and shares the characteristics of other mammals.

Who Shrank My Grandmother's House?: Poems of Discovery

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

A collection of poems about childhood discoveries concerning everyday objects and things.

Dance With Me

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

A collection of poems depicting the dance of nature.

Echoes for the Eye: Poems to Celebrate Patterns in Nature

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

A collection of poems that reveal patterns in nature.

Sponges Are Skeletons

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

The Star Maiden: An Ojibway Tale

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

Tired of wandering in the sky, the star maiden searches for the perfect home on earth.

Ladder to the sky

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

Recounts the legend of how the gift of healing came to the Ojibway people.

Great northern diver

By Barbara Juster Esbensen

Introduces the elusive loon, one of the most primitive birds in the United States.