New Releases by Bruce McMillan

"Fossil-bearing sites containing predominantly mastodon, Mammut americanum, remains were discovered west of the Mississippi River on the Osage River in Upper Louisiana only a few decades after the discovery by Longueuil of similar remains at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky. The first excavations were conducted in the 1790s by Pierre Chouteau, a fur trader and member of the founding family of St. Louis. Chouteau''s work was documented by several early travelers, including Georges-Henri-Victor Collot and later by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark among others. ... By 1840 the ... fossil collector and museum entrepreneur, Albert C. Koch, began extensive digging in the Osage River basin along with sites in the Bourbeuse River valley and at Kimmswick along the Mississippi River in Missouri."--Abstract.

Bruce McMillan takes his camera into the garden and orchard, inviting young children to discover color as it grows in nature.--Ingram

The women of one village in Iceland decide to plant trees to stop the powerful winds that make it difficult even to go for a walk, but first they must find a ways to prevent sheep from eating all of their saplings, while encouraging chickens to fertilize them.

The ladies of Iceland have a problem: the birds lay their eggs in nooks on the sides of steep cliffs, so the ladies have a very difficult time getting any of the eggs for baking. They go to town to buy chickens to lay eggs for them instead. For a while, everyone is happy: there are plenty of eggs to bake plenty of yummy things. But the ladies'' problems are far from solved, for the more time the chickens spend with the ladies, the more they begin to act like them too, until eventually they stop laying eggs all together. Now this is a problem indeed, but you can be sure, the clever ladies will find a solution. Full of fun and silliness, this lighthearted tale and vibrant illustrations are a delight.

The author presents the story of Drifa, who lives on a small island off the coast of Iceland and is responsible for the hatching and raising of over 200 peeping wild eider ducks to reestablish a colony on the island. Full color.

Describes how a young girl living fifty miles from the Arctic Circle gets her horse ready to participate in the annual râettir, or gathering of sheep, in their farming community in Iceland.

An hour-by-hour introduction to telling time follows the activities of a little boy''s day from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night.

Text and photos present baby zoo animals, with maps showing where each animal comes from.

Two six-year-olds on a whale-watching expedition see different kinds of whales engaging in such activities as headstanding and lunge feeding. Includes facts about each kind of whale.

An hour-by-hour introduction to telling time follows the activities of a little boy''s day from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night.

Adjectives are used visually and grammatically to demonstrate the three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative.

Photographs of various parts of a fire engine depict different geometrical shapes.

The author/photographer follows Evan with a camera for ten months and records his steps in learning to walk as Evan crawls, stands, climbs, walks, and runs.

A counting book with photographs of wildflowers illustrating the numbers one through twenty.

Photographs of a girl involved in various activities illustrate such opposite concepts as above/below, full/empty, and big/small.

A tricycle relegated to the trash heap manages its own salvation. Includes supplementary material.

A collection of children''s books on birds and eggs.

Chrissy overcomes her fear of ghosts to help a long-forgotten doll. Illustrated with photographs taken in a house built in 1812 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Photographs and text explain the steps in manufacturing running shoes.

Punography offers a new dimension for all pun lovers, a series of visual puns that will delight the eye and challenge the brain. Photographer Bruce A. McMillan here serves up a congeries of cunning clichés, a panoply of picture puns that may well replace sex as the national (indoor) pastime. Each pun is pictured (and given a surprising new meaning) in a series of superb photographs. A delightfully pungent volume, Punography is guaranteed to bring you many hours of pun and games.--Cover

A young boy learns the meaning of the fishermen''s expression, "Finestkind," when he is a sternman on a lobsterboat.

Photographs of an orchestra reveal different letters of the alphabet.