Best Selling Books by Jim Arnosky

With Jim Arnosky as your guide, an ordinary hike becomes an eye-opening experience. He'll help you spot a hawk soaring far overhead and note the details of a dragonfly up close. Study the black-and-white drawings -- based on his own field research -- and you'll discover if those tracks in the brush were made by a deer or a fox. In his celebrated style, this author, artist, and naturalist enthusiastically shares a wealth of tips. Jim Arnosky wants you to enjoy watching wildlife. He carefully explains how field marks, shapes, and location give clues for identifying certain plants and animals wherever you are. He gives hints for sharpening observational skills. And he encourages you to draw and record birds, insects, shells, animal tracks, and other finds from a busy day's watch.

Includes drawings of plants, animals, landscapes, and other aspects of nature in each season, with comments from the artist on how and why he drew them.

In order to survive, animals must stay hidden. Fortunately, nature helps by providing coloration that camouflages them in their habitat. Award-winning author and illustrator Arnosky looks at this most artful and beautiful aspect of animal life in five gorgeous gatefolds. Full color.

Meet the show-offs! With their eye-catching patterns, feathers, scales, and dancelike movement, many animals seem to be saying: "Look at ME!" Acclaimed naturalist Jim Arnosky reveals the reasons behind their attention-grabbing behavior. His spectacular art, including amazing gatefolds, presents brilliantly colored poison arrow frogs; the breeding plumage of various birds; the impressive antlers of deer and elk; the dramatic color transformation of spawning fish; and so much more.

"Describes how some animals survive in frigid regions, including muskrats, walruses, and the Arctic fox. With great five fold-out pages"--

A whimsical mouse experiences many mishaps while using sticks to form the letters of the alphabet.

Presents tips on identifying animal tracks, with blank pages provided for keeping records.

Bobby and Gina visit their grandparents on Lake Champlain and learn about the legendary monster that supposedly inhabits the lake.

A mouse counts objects from one to ten on the way to the beach and back again.

A song about the time Big Jim had pencil and sketchbook in hand while following the trail of a huge bull moose but dropped his art supplies when he climbed a tree for safety.

Celebrates the beauty and diversity of hundreds of insects and spiders in an illustrated work that features eight gatefolds depicting butterflies, beetles, spiders, and other insects.

Twelve newly hatched ducklings spend their first night near the water.

On a rocky ledge, two baby mountain lions play and purr and meow under the protection of their mother.

Instructions for drawing plants and animals in motion.

The author describes and identifies winged predators, and explains why there are no feathers on a vulture's head, which bird is the deep-diving champ, and what makes an owl's wings perfectly silent in flight, in a text with fold-out pages.

Everyone's favorite naturalist, Crinkleroot, takes young readers on a trip ashe searches for his friend Sassafrass the snake. Inviting color illustrationstake readers on a trip through natural wonders.

Writer Jim Arnosky describes his trip into the Florida Everglades in search of the elusive American crocodile, an animal which has inhabited the earth since the days of the dinosaurs.

Long Spikes, a deer who is orphaned as a yearling when his mother is killed, grows to maturity and displaces the old one-eyed buck from his position as dominant male.

A beaver and a moose share a pond, each thinking that the body of water belongs to him.

Lions and tigers and bears . . . and WOLVES--oh, my! Acclaimed nature writer and illustrator Jim Arnosky introduces awe-inspiring wild predators: carnivores that survive by tooth and claw. Follow the huge paw prints of big cats like the African lion; of massive bears like the fierce grizzly; and the gray wolf. One spectacular double gatefold plus two single foldouts present the animals up close and lifelike!

An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of manatees.

Presents fish tales, advice, drawings and photographs, and personal stories about fishing, boating, and watching water wildlife, and includes information on fishing equipment and techniques, paddling, rowing, and motorboating, using binoculars, and related topics.

Explains how to find and understand the signs made by animals around water, in the woods, and in the snow.

Despite his attachment to the young boy who raised him from a puppy, Gray Boy gives in to his natural instincts and goes back to the wild.

Identifies some of the things happening in nature while one goes about an ordinary day, such as a shark circling a reef, while one brushes one's teeth, or puffins eating fresh-caught fish while one eats dinner.

The humorous aspects of a man's reclusive life in the country are revealed in three picture stories and two letters.

Provides drawings of landscapes, plants, animals, and other aspects of nature, accompanied by comments from the artist on how and why he drew them.

An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of various types of lizards.

Follows the adventures of Nathaniel as he solves four perplexing problems.

An introduction to the techniques and joys of the most popular method of fishing in the world, one which uses lures that spin.

Provides paintings of beaches, rocks, water, gulls, fish, and other aspects of nature on a small Maine island, accompanied by comments from the artist on how and why he painted them.