Del Norte Public Library

Spending a day outdoors, Anna revels in the joys of sun, sky, grass, flowers, berries, frogs, ants, and beetles.

This intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, 'Wings of Life' utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet.

A boy planted what he believes to be a yellow poinciana seed but to his surprise the seed produced a red poinciana tree.

A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet revisits and celebrates his childhood memories of summers, Mexico, and nature.

Explores the natural world of biology, providing facts about a variety of such topics as DNA, lichen, seeds, coral, metamorphosis, parasites, and gibbons.

"Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"-- "Dos niños curiosos van a dar un paseo, haciendo preguntas imaginativas sobre la belleza natural que los rodea"--

A Cuban girl transforms her long and unruly hair into a garden. One night, while Dalia slept safely wrapped in her mother's cool silken sheets, her hair grew and grew. By the time the rooster crowed, her hair had "grown straight up to the sky, tall and thick as a Cuban royal palm tree." Her mother was amazed, and wondered what her daughter would do with her wondrous hair. As Dalia looked at the flowers blooming in the garden, an idea sprouted inside...