Ridgway Public Library

As ever-growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

The Spider Queen is dead, but the powerful scorpion Lord Marmoo and his fearsome army are still a threat to the Amphibilands, especially as the Rainbow Serpent has told the frogs that they must lower the veil that protects them--so the young wood frog Darel and his friends must search the Outback for answers in the quest to bring peace and water to their land.

A family of beavers experiences all the forms water comes in, including rain, snow, ice, and drops.

Cumulative text describes how water falls from the clouds as rain and eventually makes its way to the sea.

A young child describes some of the many ways water is used.

As a father puts his child to bed, he tells her about a raindrop that falls to become part of the ocean and a bubble that rises to merge with the air.

Do you know what bear loves about puddles, bubbles, snowflakes, and clouds? They are all made of water!

"A collection of short stories, visualizing the Great American Desert as an imagined world unto itself, traced from prehistoric times to the future. Explores water--its use and abuses--and the consequences of the land's mistreatment over time"--

Shiny, a whale child, is turned into a boy to teach Alex, a young girl, the wisdom of the Native American value of environmental stewardship so that she can share it with others. Includes glossary of environmental terms, facts about Pacific Northwest Native cultures, and other educational resources.

"East-coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption...