Henry Carter Hull

What's the difference between a seal and a sea lion? These "second cousins" of the sea look similar, but there are many ways to tell them apart. From ear shape to the noises they make to communicate, seals and sea lions are amazing creatures with shared features and many truly unique attributes. They both share an ocean habitat, but when readers take a closer look, it's easy to discover how they each fight off predators, mate, and raise their young...

Little Bear's thank-you kiss from grandmother gets passed on to him by many animals and greatly aids the skunks' romance.

"There is pandemonium in the jungle. A strange roaring sounds sends the animals stampeding, convinced it's a monster. But all is not as it seems. Only Elmer the patchwork elephant is brave enough to investigate, and what he discovers comes as quite a surprise"--

Recounts the adventures of Astro, an orphaned, endangered Steller sea lion who was rescued and raised by the Marine Mammal Center in California and kept returning to the center after being released back into the wild.

When a bear loses his bright red scarf in the woods, it is found--and lost again--by a series of animals that use it to keep warm or to have fun, but they disagree over who really owns it and cause a problem that only the scarf's true owner can fix.

While two kittens copy everything their mother does, their brother naps.

A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.

A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.

"Discusses raccoons, their behavior, and their environment"--

"To learn if she truly is the last dairne in the world--the endling--Byx and her friends must travel into the snow-covered mountains of the country of Dreyland, where they hope to uncover the truth behind the legend of a hidden dairne colony. But the threat of war across the lands continues to grow with each passing day. As the group confronts untold dangers at every turn, they will ultimately uncover a treacherous plot that involves the other powerful...