A brilliant personal , local and universal book of poetry , prose
and mythology. MaMa is one of the most beautifull xmas stories
i have encountered. A lovely slice of down home true life fiction that makes me laugh with joy! Raven Hair and Turquoise , You Grow Wild in my Heart ,
and Many Moons fill the Sky are heartfelt barenaked honest poetry
that is seldom encountered in a literary landscape littered with
heartless wordplay & cynicism. This book has a Huge Heart and is destined to be a classic.

What a wonderful way to introduce children to environemental issues. This will be a book that I will share with my students!

I checked this book out of my school library at the age of 7 and loved it! The teacher read it to us! I was always interested in wildlife!

Is it possible for a human being to live in a beaver lodge? One can almost believe that Irene Brady spent a year - or a lifetime - living with this little group. She became a beloved aunt, an integral part of the extended family. She sat in her own spot on the platform in the lodge, writing the story and sketching pictures of the charming and intimate beaver drama unfolding around her. You can almost see her venturing out to fell a small tree and helping to build and repair the dam. You can imagine her chewing aspen leaves for dinner, helping to settle sibling squabbles, baby-sitting on occasion, grooming and cuddling tired kits at the end of a playful and industrious day. And observing, always observing, and recording with the careful eye of a scientific artist and a meticulous writer who loves her subjects.

She didn't live with them, of course, but somehow she catches the essence of their lives and shares it with her readers in such a way that they all, children and adults, can spend a magic season in the beaver lodge, joining in their good times and their bad. Days of industry, moments of fear when predators loom, disaster when a flood strikes, and renewal as kits grow up and start their own families. A book to own, to treasure!

Here is a wonderful puzzle for anyone interested in animal behavior: How do beavers "know" when and how to make their amazing constructions -- their dams, lodges, and canals? What model of a beaver's "head" can we conjure to account for its ability to align and compact logs with mud to stem a stream, or to repair a damaged dam, or to build a warm and dry den in the middle of a pond to house and protect its family? This book, based on a thorough review of the literature and the authors' own research, provides an up-to-date summary of knowledge currently available on beavers, their behavior, and their ecology. Well written and easily read, it is the best survey of beavers I have seen and provides excellent background for any future inquiry into the mystery of beaver engineering.

a very good book, about a river, itshistory, and the people around it. very well written, and very good pictures

I liked this book because it gives off a lot of self feelings. The problem is faciniting. I could hardly beleave that no of the informaition was true! Emily Arnold McCully expresses her beautiful artwork in this book. I definitly would recomend it to all of my friends no matter how old or young they are. I am sure, thanks to all of the work put into this book, that my friends will like it. I know I did and I know they will too.

The best book on Beavers ever. A lot of info packed between kiver to kiver

very well written book with excellent illustrations. highlights the massive advance this ship made to nautical history - how it constantly missed by a hairs breadth its true success, and the incompetent management that prevented this ship moving forward nautical developement by seventy years.

Bonzo Beaver is my 8 year old daughter's all-time favorite book. She started reading it at our local library when she was about 3 years old. Now it is discarded and I am trying to find out how to purchse a new or used one.

It is a great book! 5 1/2 stars all the way!

Sincerely, Mary Ann Nalbone