Text and photographs discuss animals that build their own homes including beavers, crayfish, and bees.

A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear.

Recounts the adventures of the nineteenth-century frontier hunter, with an emphasis on his experiences with bears.

A toad begins life as a tiny tadpole, becomes a tiny toad and finds himself a hole under a rock, eats all kinds of insects, and becomes old enough to return to the pond to breed.

Includes index

Recounts how the first elephant came to America in 1795, met President Washington, and toured the country.