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Great Gifts for Nature Lovers!
 
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A Pirate's Quest
Hardcover Book $19.95
The Riddle in a Bottle
DVD with Features $19.95
First Snow in the Woods
Hardcover Book $19.95
     
Stranger in the Woods
Hardcover Book $19.95
Spanish Edition Book $19.95
DVD with Features $19.95
Music CD  $12.95
12" Plush Snowman  OUT
7" Plush Snowman  $7.95
 
Find My Friends
Board Book $7.95
 
Winter Friends
Board Book $7.95
 
When Snowflakes Fall
NEW! Board Book $7.95
 
Lost in the Woods
Hardcover Book $19.95
The Movie DVD $19.95
Soundtrack/Read-along $9.95
10" Plush Fawn
Temporarily Out of Stock
 $14.95
  


A 10" plush fawn is a great companion for readers of "Lost in the Woods."
Temporarily Out of Stock
Estimated ship date June, 1 2009. If you order this item it will be automatically put on backorder so you will be first to receive it when it is in stock.




The 7" and 12" plush snowmen are the perfect buddies to cuddle while reading "Stranger in the Woods" and "Winter Friends."
{
NOTE: 12" Snowman is
currently out of stock.}
 

Holiday Greeting Cards Available
Pumpernickel Press has created a series of cards based upon Winter Friends and Stranger in the Woods. You can purchase them on our site.


Another beautiful board book
for the littlest nature lovers:
When Snowflakes Fall
'"When snowflakes fall…twisting and twirling…what will you do? Where will you go?” whoo-ted the great gray owl.'

Little ones learn how animals of the forest find good and stay warm when snowflakes fly.

Simple words and beautiful photographs tell this story written especially for toddlers.

Sturdy Board Book
14 color pages




Authors: Laura Sams & Rob Sams  
Illustrator: Heiner Hertling  
 
A Pirate's Quest
(for his family heirloom peg leg)

A Mom’s Choice Awards winner, this is the story of a one-legged pirate who loses his beloved family heirloom peg leg. The pirate's journey begins by a tiny lake far from the sea where his peg leg has drifted away during the night. He vows to find his leg by following the moving water from the lakes to the rivers to the ocean. And he never gives up! This award winning book teaches children how life on earth is connected by moving water.

More info at www.apiratesquest.com


Best Children's Film  
Patagonia's Wild and  
Scenic Film Festival  
Largest environmental  
film festival in the  
United States!  



Top Three Finalist for the Panda Award for
Best Children's Wildlife Film World-Wide!

The Riddle in a Bottle

This DVD inspired our book A Pirate's Quest! Filmed by award- winning wildlife filmmakers Laura Sams and Robert Sams, it shows how life on earth is connected through moving water.

“The Riddle Solvers” try to solve a puzzling riddle that mysteriously floats to their inland riddle stand from the far away ocean.

Their adventure introduces them to baby loggerhead sea turtles, the rhythm of the tides, some interesting freshwater creatures and a distraught one-legged pirate.

Length: 30 Minutes (not including Special Features)

DVD Special Features include:
  • The Making of the Book A Pirate's Quest, perfect for educators!
  • The Making of The Riddle in a Bottle, which shares over 10 minutes of outtakes, challenges and methods for making the movie.
  • A printable packet of classroom connection activities for teachers!

See video clips at www.apiratesquest.com



Winner of 16 awards!
Mom’s Choice Awards winner
 
First Snow in the Woods

Readers are taken on a beautiful photographic journey deep into the autumn woods as the animals of the forest get ready for the year’s first winter storm. They hear the cries from the great gray owl who came down from the far north carrying the warning, “Winter is coming early this year! Prepare.”

From the very first page, readers will be fascinated by the exquisite photographs of wildlife amid a background of vibrant autumn reds and golds. Will the animals be ready for the cold, hard winter to come?


Lost in the Woods
This award-winning children's book weaves a delightful tale with a message: fawns found alone in the woods are rarely lost or abandoned. Newborn fawns spend their first weeks without mom because her scent will attract predators to her babe.

Winner of 12 prestigious awards including the Independent Publisher Award (IPPY Award) for Best Children’sPicture Book.

Read what Betty DeRamus said about this book in the Detroit News in April, 2005.

See a Movie Clip NOW!
Lost in the Woods: The Movie on DVD

Winner of the Panda Award for Best Children’s Wildlife Film World-Wide!

It's fun. It's silly. It's educational. Forest creatures learn the truth about the little fawn who sleeps alone in the woods. Adults and
children will enjoy the story as well as the original songs.


Lost in the Woods: Soundtrack & Read-Along
The original music and songs created for The Movie accompany a lively reading of the Lost in the Woods book that children can
listen to as they turn the pages.


Stranger in the Woods
It's made the national best seller's lists in this country for three consecutive years and has climbed to Number One on the New York Times list warming the hearts of children of all ages from 1 to 100.

Educators and reading specialists have come to treasure this little book and have welcomed it into their classrooms. Our "Stranger in the Woods" video and a toe-tapping CD have been well received additions garnering many more awards this past year.
Stranger in the Woods
   Spanish Edition

The same delightful book, but published in Spanish.

To find out more about additional products relating to our book and all of its awards, visit to our special web site: www.strangerinthewoods.com 
Stranger in the Woods:
The Movie on DVD
Journey deep into the winter woods with two talking snowdrifts who introduce you to their forest friends and reminisce about the time a mysterious stranger came to visit. Stranger in the Woods, The Movie blends award-winning nature photography from the book along with live video and original songs.

The DVD has Special Features not found in the book or video. They include the interactive "Build a Snowman," interviews with other snowdrifts, English subtitles, "The Making of Stranger in the Woods" which takes you behind the scenes, and a special preview of the next book by Sams & Stoick, "Lost in the Woods."

Find My Friends
"Peek-a-boo!!" Can you find the little mouse hidden in the leaves? Do you see the tree frog camouflaged on the tree? Have you ever seen a walking stick?

Little ones will love the creatures of nature while learning how they use their special colors to hide.

Midwest Independent Publishers Association Honorable Mention Award Winner

Sturdy Board Book
14 color pages
Winter Friends
A romp through the winter woods especially for toddlers! This 14-page board book has nearly indestructible pages adorned with beautiful photographs of the furry and feathered friends interacting with the stranger who first made his appearance in the award winning book, Stranger in the Woods.

This is a great way for parents and grandparents to begin teaching the very young about appreciating the wonders of nature.


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