Rita Golden Gelman

Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in Los Angeles to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986, she sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere...

A lonely mole's animal friends find his hole too dark and small for them, but in Ms. Mole he meets the perfect companion to share his life. Features rebuses throughout the text.

Discusses the characteristics, habitats, and behavior of different kinds of monkeys and apes around the world.

Teachers teach, flyers fly, painters paint, climbers climb--and teachers fly, climbers paint ....

Text and illustrations demonstrate the importance of rice to life on the island of Bali in the country of Indonesia, where rice is consumed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Follows the life of a vervet monkey and her troop from her birth until she is two years old.

Retells the story of how a beautiful Jewish girl became the Queen of Persia and saved her people from death at the hands of the evil Hamen.

Before he bathes, Penguin answers his animal friends' questions about baths such as "Why does the water rise when you get in?" and "Why do some soaps float?"