• Preface
• How to Use This Book • GROWTH AND CHANGE • Growing Grasshoppers • Spiders: Weavers and Hunters • From Rocks to Soil • The Year of a Tree • Butterflies: Flying Flowers
• From Flower to Fruit • Friends with Frogs and Toads
• Growing Up a Bird • ANIMAL HOMES • Bats and Beyond
• Chipmunks and Their Cousins • Life Underground • The Snow's My Home • Owls: Nighttime Hunters
• Turtles at Home • Bees in Their Hives • Wiggly Worms
• CONNECTIONS TO NATURE • All About Apples • Food for All • Wild about Water • Animal Tracks • Mighty Mice • Circle of the Sun • Get Growing! • Nature and Us
• Appendix A: Equipping the Classroom for Small Wonders Nature Series • Appendix B: Small Wonders and Early Childhood Learnig Standards • Glossary
• Index