Marion Dane Bauer

At her grandmother's log cabin, nine-year-old Liz is led to make contact with children she believes may be her ancestors.

A simple retelling of the Nativity story that celebrates the timeless joy of welcoming a new baby into the world.

In Anchorage, Alaska, two lonely boys make a connection--a brown bear injured just after his mother sends him out on his own, and a human whose father is a new keeper at the Alaska Zoo and whose mother and sister are still in Minnesota.

Simple text and illustrations explore the wonders of snow.

Illustrations and simple text explain what wind is, how it is used by plants, birds, and people, and how wind can become a storm.

Illustrations and simple text explain what rain is, how it is used by plants, birds, and people, and the importance of clean water.

Discusses how to write fiction, exploring such aspects as character, plot, point of view, dialogue, endings, and revising.

Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations...

It all started with water. But how did one river make such a deep canyon? Read on and find out.