Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

The story of how Alice Waters became a cook, restaurateur, and founder of the school garden-to-table program the Edible Schoolyard.

Annie Livemore, her cat, and two of her friends collect acorns, carefully nurture them until they are big enough to be planted in the ground, and then grow old with all the oak trees they have planted. Includes instructions on growing oak trees from acorns.

Mountain man Washburn insists on looking on the bright side of things, even as disaster after disaster befalls him.

Tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.