Ocean State Libraries

Birds sing softly as a light rain falls throughout the woods. A distant rumble grows until the thunder's fury pierces the forest calm. Rain increases as the thunder grows closer. When the storm retreats, the rain slackens as frogs and birds begin to sing.

"Illustrations and rhyming text explore the sights and sounds of nature in each season of the year. On board pages." -- "Illustrations and rhyming text explore the sights and sounds of nature in each season of the year." --

Explains how sounds are made and the purposes they serve for both humans and other animals.-

Warm night breezes bring singing crickets and the hoot of owls.

Presents 60 various sounds of nature.

"A rich exploration of how the evolution of both natural and manmade sounds have shaped us and the world, and how the world's acoustic diversity is currently in grave danger of being destroyed. We live on a planet that is wrapped in the diverse acoustic marvels of song and speech. Yet never has this diversity been so threatened as it is now. Braiding his experience as a listener and an ecologist with the latest scientific discoveries, David Haskell...

"In her newest collection, Moore selects essays that celebrate the music of the natural world as a reminder of what can be taken from us-the yowl of wolves, tick of barnacles, laughter of children, shriek of falling mountains. Alongside these selections are brand new essays born from the sorrow and iniquity of this new age of extinction, all bearing witness to the glories of this world and the sins against it. Each group of essays moves, as Moore...

Experience three of Hawaii's most beautiful islands, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island, with the natural sounds of Hawaii accented with soothing music. See spectacular lava footage plus aerial views of this beautiful tropical land--Container.