Crow not crow

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Jane Yolen

A selchie, a seal who has turned into a human boy, lives as the son of a childless Scottish couple for many years until, to save his "father's" life, he returns to the sea.

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Dugald Steer

Eleven press-out characters can be placed in slots throughout the book to participate in the activities of a typical day in Miss Hippo's nursery school class.

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Jonathan P. Latimer, Karen Stray Nolting

Describes the physical characteristics, habitats, feeding habits, and voices of a variety of songbirds, arranged under the categories "Simple Songs," "Complex Songs," "Whistling Songs," "Warbling Songs," "Trilling Songs," "Name-sayers," and "Mimics."

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Lee Hoffman

It seems easy enough for James Fox to convince rancher Amos McRae that for $60,000 the mineral spring on his land could be converted into a spa that would attract a railroad into Stick City. When things go wrong, Fox is in a situation that requires all his wits to come out alive. Two deaths threaten to expose his identity--a turn of events that could put him at the wrong end of a hangman's noose.