Dewey, Jennifer

A personal account describing various uses of mud in such activities as ritual dancing, making pottery, building villages, constructing nests, playing games, and celebrating customs.

Describes the interesting faces of fifteen baby animals and gives some brief facts about their behavior. Includes tarsier, manatee, and hognose snake.

Explores the levels of life in a pond from the muddy shore to the murky bottom.

Tells how the Wildlife Center, based in Espa?ola, New Mexico, and headed by Dr. Kathleen Ramsay, nurtures sick and injured wild animals back to health.

Provides an introduction to petroglyphs, the ancient images found on stones throughout the southwestern United States, with discussion of the lives of the native people who inhabited the region, and how and why they created the rock drawings.

The author describes her experiences with a family of roadrunners who come to live near her house.

Explores the kinds of habitats animals build for themselves.

Minik, an adolescent Inuit girl, relates the conflicts brought into her tribe by the arrival of a priest from a whaling ship in the late nineteenth century.

Illustrations and text describe how fish, insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals use camouflage to find food, avoid attack, and stay alive in the enemy-filled animal kingdom.

Tells how the Wildlife Center, based in Espa?ola, New Mexico, and headed by Dr. Kathleen Ramsay, nurtures sick and injured wild animals back to health.