San Antonio College Library

When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard.

The morning after a snowfall finds animals and children playing.

Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.

Amara loves bats, so when she learns there are none near her new home due to habitat loss, she overcomes her feelings of helplessness and inspires her community to take action. Includes facts about bats and bat houses.

"Once, long ago, Miss Rumphius was a little girl named Alice who lived in a city by the sea. When she grew up, she wanted to travel and see faraway places and then come home to live beside the sea, just as her grandfather had. But there was one thing more she had to do. "What is that?" Alice asked her grandfather. "You must do something to make the world more beautiful," he told her. Little Alice grew up to become Miss Rumphius, and true to her promise...