Cotton Tales
Fiction

Birds

• Hawk Hill (Ages 4-8)

by  Suzie Gilbert and Sylvia Long (Illustrator)

A young boy living in a new place meets a woman who runs a rehabilitation centre for birds of prey.  Through their friendship, the boy learns almost everything about the wonderful birds his new friend cares for. 

This book is filled with beautiful illustrations and is as wonderful to look at as it is to read.  

Mammals

• Brother Rabbit : A Cambodian Tale (Ages 4-8)
  
  by Minfong Ho, Saphan Ros, 
  Jennifer Hewitson & Jou-Sien Tseng (Illustrators)

Brother Rabbit, the clever trickster, survives by his wits as he plays dead in a basket of bananas in order to eat them, convinces an elephant to unglue him from a tree stump, and talks his way out of a crocodile's belly.

• Opossum at Sycamore Road (Ages 4-8)
  
  by Sally M. Walker, Joel Snyder (Illustrator)

Opossum and her babies encounter danger as they search for food at night

• Raccoons and Ripe Corn (Ages 4-8)
  
  by Jim Arnosky

Hungry raccoons feast at night in a field of ripe corn.

Amphibians

• The Salamander Room
  
  by Anne Mazer, Steve Johnson (Illustrator)

A young boy finds a salamander and thinks of the many things he can do to make a perfect home for it.

Insects

• Be Nice to Spiders (Ages 4-8)
  
  by Margaret Bloom Graham, Margaret Bloy Graham
  

A little boy gives his spider to the zoo because the apartment he is moving to doesn't allow pets. Next you will read about all the things that happen to his spider in the zoo.

Endangered Species

• The Case of the Missing Cutthroats : An Eco Mystery (Ages 9-12)
  
  by Jean Craighead George

Ecology

• Alejandro’s Gift

by  Richard E. Albert and Sylvia Long (Illustrator)