Andrea Debbink

Explores the importance of rivers to humans as sources of drinking water, transportation, and power sources, and explains how humans buried old rivers beneath city streets in an attempt to control the flow of rivers and problems they caused. Examines the damage caused by the containment of rivers, and discusses the development of daylighting, the unearthing and restoring of buried rivers to their rightful places and natural courses. Includes back...

An illustrated introduction to the world's animals--from butterflies and koalas to frogs, snakes, dolphins, and falcons--and offers young readers ideas on how they can become environmental and wildlife protectors. Includes brief profiles of important environmentalists, artists, world explorers, and scientists in the past who have helped raise awareness and been advocates for the world's animals.