Nature Month




N
ature is something we all experience every day.  Trees that sustain us with oxygen, mosquitoes that bite us, birds that wake us up in the morning with their varying songs, the smell of fresh-cut grass—all part of our world and the world of nature.   

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Image result for the blue planetThis month, we want to celebrate nature with books and films that fill our shelves and explore the wonders of the natural world.  Read about the toxic fungus that probably infected the girls at Salem in 1691 and other Wicked Plants in Amy Stewart’s informative and fascinating volume.  Discover the otherworldly creatures of the deep sea in the DVD series The Blue Planet:  Seas of Life.  Delve into the beautiful a long-lost manuscript written one hundred years ago that includes vibrant butterfly illustrations from North America by the artist Titian Peale.  The Butterflies of North America also includes scanned pages from the original manuscript!

We have volumes on bees, bugs, plants, animals, mushrooms, and DVDs on the seas and the earth.  Come on in and share in the wonders of the world you never knew existed!