Introduces some of the animals that live in American prairies, including such creatures as the red fox, Great Plains toad, prairie dog, bison, and ornate box turtle.

A story based travel guide for the best experience of the Iowa prairie.

This is a collection of literature from and about the tallgrass bioregion. It focuses on autobiographical nonfiction including adventure narrative, spiritual reflection, childhood memoir, Native American perspectives, literary natural history, humor, travel writing and reportage. Writings by early explorers are followed by works of nineteenth-century authors that reflect the fear, awe, reverence, and thrill of adventure of the time. After 1900, following...

"Janie Dunn flees Boston and moves far away to raise the son of her deceased cousin where he'll be protected from his violent father, and finds that prairie life is far more difficult--and far more wonderful--than she could have imagined"--

"A little girl dreams of adventures in the water and feels the spirit of the ocean all around her . . . even though she lives on the prairie, with flat land as far as the eye can see. But she won't let a little detail like that stand in the way of being a meadow mermaid! Frolicking in the "waves" of wheat and "oceans" of grass, spying sea horses and . . . a shipwrecked sailor? Even if that shipwreck is actually an overturned bike and the sailor a...