Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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Overview: In the fall of 2007, the oak trees in southern New Hampshire produced unusually tiny acorns, starving the local squirrels and deer. Worried about the deer around her farmhouse, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas began leaving food in small piles-and soon she had more than thirty deer coming to her fields. How did they know when to come, all together, and why did they sometimes cooperate, some-times compete." Her naturalist's eye riveted, for the...
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A dog, a goat, and their flock follow the sight and scent of a star in a beautifully illustrated, keenly observed Nativity story.
The story begins on a cold upland pasture where coarse grass and scrub cedar grew. The hour was midnight. The day was the first of winter. And the year of our Lord was not 1900 or 1600 or even 100. It was 0. On that night a white goat, Ima, and a huge, gray short-haired sheepdog, Lila, were keeping watch
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