Describes how cats communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.

When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.

Briefly traces the evolution of a species of giant turtles on the Galapagos Islands from millions of years ago to the present.

Charlie Carlisle's grandfather is illustrations Charlie's friend, Singing Bird, a Teton Sioux, tells him that ravens have curing powers, so Charlie steals a baby bird from its nest. Granddad, a retired naturalist, encourages Charlie to record his observations of the bird and study the effect it has on humans. Charlie just hopes that the raven will make Granddad well.