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Here it is: the first-ever Wildlife Watching book review section. It is meant to be a work-in-progress, to which I will add your reviews and recommendations as you provide them. I have come up with a few different headings so far, for ease of reading and finding titles but if you want me to include a book that doesn't seem to fit any of these, and if you can suggest another heading, please tell me and it shall be done!! By the way, I have not put the titles in alphabetical
(or any other) order, but rather, have just listed them as they came in. -Shelley

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

My Side of the Mountain - Jean George

How Groundhog's Garden Grew - Lynne Cherry

Each Living Thing - Joanne Ryder, illustrated by Ashley Wolff

Dear Children of the Earth - Schim Schimmel

Ruth Heller titles: "How To Hide?" series (How To Hide An Octopus, How To Hide A Parakeet, How
To Hide A Butterfly); The Reason For A Flower, Animals Born Alive and Well, A Cache of Jewel

Fun With Nature - Take-Along Guides

Walks With Red Dog - Jim Conrad (found online: http://earthfoot.org/reddog/reddog00.htm )

The Scoop on Poop! The Fascinating Science of How Animals Use Poop...to Build Homes, Attract
Partners, Send Messages, Cool Off, and lots more! - Wayne Lynch.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Astrophotography: An Introduction - HJP Arnold

National Geographic's 100 Best Wildlife Pictures, Collector's Edition, volume 3

NON-FICTION

100 Birds & How They Got Their Names - Diana Wells

Stressing & Unstressing In A Tent - Stuart L. Burns

The Trees In My Forest - Bernd Heinrich

A Year In The Maine Woods - Bernd Heinrich

There's A Porcupine In My Outhouse - Misadventures of a Mountain Man Wannabe - Michael J.
Touglas

Songs & Birds; Essays - Jake Page

A Cherokee Feast of Days - Joyce Sequiche Hifler (a book of meditations)

Discover Nature in the Garden - Jim Conrad

Birder?s Dictionary - Randall T. Cox

FICTION

Watership Down - Richard Adams

BIOGRAPHY

Through A Window - Jane Goodall

Reason For Hope - Jane Goodall

Walking With The Great Apes - Sy Montegomery

GENERAL/MISCELLANEOUS

Combat Surgeons - John Laffin

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NON-FICTION
Mammals-Alexandria Virgina

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Animals as Teachers and Healers, by ????

I just passed this book to Shelley this weekend, so I don't have it here to get the author's name off of it. It's a must-read for any animal lover with a soul. It teaches us about the role animals play not just in our daily lives, but also in our spiritual lives. PS: get the tissues handy.

Fiction: The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkein was a great lover of nature and was one of the first to write about the problems of industrialization and urban sprawl. That is one of the major themes of this series of books.

Some of my favorite wildlife books include the following non-fiction selections:

Sharing a Robin's Life by Linda Johns

Red-Tails in Love; A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn, and...

A Wing in the Door; Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk by Peri Phillips McQuay

For additional info on Susan Chernak McElroy's Animals as Teachers and Healers

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The author of Animals as Teachers and Healers (Why don't I have the tool bar that lets me underline or italicize?) is Susan Chernak McElroy. Thank you Shelley for giving me that info.