An Apple a Day: 2

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

An overview of growing apples, from planting and harvesting to the grocery shelves.

Feathers

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Describes, in text and photographs, birds' feathers--from structure, type, and color to various uses.

What Good Is a Tail?

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Looks at various animal tails and their uses.

Children Save the Rain Forest

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Explores the International Children's Rain Forest, what it is, the plants and animals that live there, why it is important, and what can be done to preserve it.

Grandfather's nose

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Discusses basic genetics, explaining how the combination of genes passed on from our parents makes each of us a unique individual.

Singing birds and flashing fireflies

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Illustrates how animals use a variety of signals to communicate with each other.

A polar bear biologist at work

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Describes the work of Charles Jonkel, a biologist who studied polar bears in the Arctic and primarily in Churchill, Manitoba.

Saving the Prairie Bandit Wildlife Conservation Society Books

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

A Polar Bear Biologist at Work Wildlife Conservation Society Books

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

The call of the osprey

By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

A stunning addition to the Scientists in the Field series that explores mercury pollution found in the rivers and streams of Western Montana that might cause harm to humans--and the extinction of t...