Children’s Books and Videos

Saving Birds - Heroes Around the World
by Pete Salmansohn and Stephen W. Kress
Tilbury House, ISBN 0-88448-237-5

This by authors Pete Salmansohn and Steve Kress focuses on the experiences and efforts of grownups and children, scientists and volunteers working to save birds in very different corners of the world. Color photographs illustrate the six featured stories that encourage volunteerism and activism. Steve Kress is Audubon's vice president for bird conservation and director of Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program. Pete Salmansohn, Maine's Environmental Educator of the year in 1998, is an educator for Audubon.

Order online through the Audubon Adventures webstore or contact the publisher for more information:

Tilbury House Publishers
42 Mechanic Street
Gardiner, ME 04345
(800) 582-1899

How We Brought Puffins Back to Egg Rock
Stephen W. Kress, as told to Pete Salmansohn
Tilbury House 1997
Grades 3-6
ISBN 0-88448-170-0

With their large, colorful beaks, their upright posture, and their big, dark eyes, it's easy to see why puffins are popular all over the world. Biologist Stephen Kress decided to try to bring puffins back to Maine with an experiment that had never been attempted before. Stunning color photographs and fascinating puffin facts on every page capture each step of this wildlife success story.

Note: Project Puffin was named a 1997 Smithsonian Institution Notable Books for Children and an NSTA/CBC 1998 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children.

Also available: Giving Back to the Earth: A Teacher's Guide to Project Puffin and Other Seabird Studies

Pete Salmansohn and Stephen W. Kress. Illustrations by Lucy Gagliardo.
Tilbury House. 1997. Grades 3-6.

Order online through the Audubon Adventures webstore or contact the publisher for more information:

Tilbury House Publishers
2 Mechanic Street
Gardiner, ME 04345
(800) 582-1899

Scholastic, Inc. 1998
Hardcover or vinyl
Grades 3-6
ISBN 0-88448-170-0

These unique field guides -- the only such books developed specifically for children -- offer beginning naturalists easy-to-use, visually stunning resources to help them observe and investigate the natural world. Over 450 full-color photographs in each volume focuses on the 50 most easily found species and helps create a satisfying field experience.

• Amphibians, Brian Cassie. ISBN 0-590-63982-X
• Birds, Scott Weidensaul. ISBN 0-590-05482-1
• Fishes, C. Lavett Smith. ISBN 0-590-64130-1
• Insects, Christina Wilsdon. ISBN 0-590-05483-X
• Mammals, John Grassy and Chuck I. Keene. ISBN 0-590-05489-9
• Night Sky, Gary Mechler. ISBN 0-590-64085-2
• Reptiles, by John L. Behler. ISBN 0-590-05487-2
• Rocks and Minerals, Edward Ricciuti. ISBN 0-590-05484-8
• Shells, Brian Cassie. ISBN 0-590-64233-2
• Trees, by Brian Cassie. ISBN 0-590-05490-2
• Weather, Jonathan D. Kahl. ISBN 0-590-05488-0
• Wildflowers, Susan Hood. ISBN 0-590-05486-4

These guides are now out of print; though you may still find them available for purchase through online vendors.

Videos

Thirteen videos for young viewers produced by HBO Home Video, featuring the fascinating world of threatened and endangered species. Each video is certain to capture your attention and imagination as you learn what it's like to run with the wolves or swim with the sea turtles and discover why these animals are endangered and what we can do to help in their preservation.

These videos are now out of print; though you may still find them available for purchase through online vendors.