Meet the howlers! These rain forest dwellers are loud and sloppy. Good thing their manners are for monkeys only! This book was inspired by our observations of howler monkeys in Panama. Release date in hardback: February 2010.  A photo of the associated poster and link to where you can download it is here: http://www.aprilsayre.com/2010/01/05/meet-the-howlers-is-on-its-way/

HOWLER SOUNDS! Below are some howler monkey calls I recorded in Panama. Read more »

Back by popular demand! This book is back in print and better than ever, with expanded main text, more endmatter about various species of sea turtles, and new illustrations.

It was recently featured as a book of the week at the wonderful CCBC, Cooperature Children’s Book Center. Hurray!

It was also reviewed on the terrific resource site, Planet Esme

Honk, Honk, Goose: Canada Geese Start a Family debuts April 14, 2009.

How can a leaf become a fish? Join two young children and two adults to find out, as they observe life in and around a stream. Energetic collage art and simple, lyrical text depict the ways plants and animals are connected in the food web. Read more »

Vulture View, a Theodor Geisel Honor Book, American Library Association. I am so excited about this book! It explores the life of vultures, surely some of the most underappreciated cleaners in the world. It also teaches kids about warm air rising and cooling air sinking. Read more »

Hush Little Puppy is a fictional bedtime picture book illustrated by Susan Winter. Read more »

Bird, Bird, Bird is follow-up to the wildly popular Trout, Trout, Trout: A Fish Chant celebrates American birds and bird diversity in general through a wild chant of their common names. Read more »

This nonfiction book weaves together stars, sunsets, comets, meteors, dust, dinosaurs, daily activities and even, in a small way, Martin Luther King. Read this book and think big about very small things. Learn how bits of all of us and all that we do help create the colors of the sunset. Read more »

A native bee, the bumblebee. takes a starring role in this nonfiction picture book about the bumblebee’s life cycle and natural history. Learn how a queen bumblebee digs out of the ground and starts her year all alone yet builds a colony by summer’s end. Read more »