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HUDSON RIVER VALLEY
For Kids
A Day in the Life of Murphy
• Alice Provensen
LITERATURE •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 40 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
A illustrated chronicle of the adventures, pleasures and perils of life on the farm by the Caldecott-winning author and illustrator. Provensen captures the scruffiness, glee and glint in the eye of her cairn terrier (AKA Murphy-Stop-That). Delightful.
(NYS41, $16.95) |
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One Day in the Woods
• Jean Craighead George
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 64 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
Rebecca discovers many things about plant and animal life when she spends the day in Teatown Woods in the Hudson Highlands of New York looking for the ovenbird. But when she sets out into the forest at dawn, she never expects to find magic everywhere she looks. A squirrel flies through the air. A deer vanishes before her eyes. A wood duckling falls from the sky. And the mysterious ovenbird holds the greatest surprise of all. One in a series of chapter books for ages 7-10 that includes the prairie, desert, tropical forest and Alpine tundra.
(NYS97, $4.99) |
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Frightful's Mountain
• Jean Craighead George
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 258 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance. In the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon interacts with several unscrupulous poachers.
(NYS99, $6.99) |
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Hudson
• Janice Weaver
EXPLORATION •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 64 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
This biography of Henry Hudson focuses on his expeditions, discoveries and contributions. Geared toward ages 8-12.
(NAM57, $22.95) |
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My Side of the Mountain
• Jean Craighead George
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
The influential Newbery-winning novel about a kid who really did run away from home and learn to thrive in the wilderness. The tale is memorably set in the Catskills. Nine to 12 year olds will especially enjoy this tale of discovery, adventure -- and growth.
(NYC19, $6.99) |
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My Side of the Mountain Trilogy
• Jean Craighead George
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 602 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
My Side of the Mountain, the Newbery-Honor winning book of 1959, is joined with its successors -- On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain -- in this trilogy of adventure.
(NYS96, $24.99) |
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On the Far Side of the Mountain
• Jean Craighead George
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 179 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Sam is joined in the Catskill Mountains by his younger sister, Alice, who is quietly living in a tree house of her own, in this sequel to My Side of the Mountain. Their peaceful life is shattered when a conservation officer confiscates Sam's falcon, Frightful, and Alice suddenly vanishes.
(NYS98, $6.99) |
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Once a Wolf, How Wildlife Biologists Brought Back the Gray Wolf
• Stephen R. Swinburne
• Jim Bradenburg
NATURAL HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 48 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Villainized in folklore and literature and considered a bloodthirsty threat to children, sheep and cattle, the grey wolf was nearly wiped out in North America by the 1930s. Swinburne documents conservationists' efforts to reintroduce grey wolves to the ecosystems of Yellowstone and New York State. With color photography, for kids ages 9-12. In the excellent series, Scientists in the Field.
(USW112, $6.99) |
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