Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Describes the popular street cook's life, including working in his family's restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant.

Annie Livemore, her cat, and two of her friends collect acorns, carefully nurture them until they are big enough to be planted in the ground, and then grow old with all the oak trees they have planted. Includes instructions on growing oak trees from acorns.

"The search for good food led Alice Waters to France, and then back home to Berkeley, California, where she started Chez Panisse restaurant and the Edible Schoolyard. For Alice, a delicious meal does not start in the kitchen, but in the fields with good soil and caring farmers...[This book] tells how one child's search for delicious led to a dream for all children to share the joy of tasty food--the same joy we get from a beautiful song, or a starry...

Oona is the last duck to the pond every morning, but when her frog friend Roy reminds her how gifted she is with gadgets, Oona gets busy inventing crafty ways to get there first.

Merry Christmas, Splat: Splat is trying hard to be good before Santa's arrival so he can get all the presents he's dreamed of on Christmas day! Fletcher and the Snowflake Christmas: It's Christmas Eve and Fletcher wonders how Santa will find his burrow through all the snow. Snowflake Bentley: Willie Bentley loves and learns all about snowflakes. Owl Moon: A girl and her father search the moonlit woods for the great horned owl.

The true story of how scientist George Schaller and four mountain men set out to save the chiru (antelope-like creatures that cannot survive captivity and live on the high plains of Tibet) from near extinction.