Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Bernd Heinrich
Biologist Bernd Heinrich's new collection of essays reads like a novel but could easily be used as a field guide. Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (HarperCollins, $24.95) weaves winter tales of backyard animal encounters with the author's graceful line illustrations. Heinrich's narrative adds a personal dimension to the science behind the creature comforts of hibernating critters. His stories breathe life and comic relief into the bleak and beautiful Vermont winters. Nesting kinglets, burrowing chipmunks and freezing frogs that unthaw in spring are all fodder for Heinrich's lyrical voice.
-Lara Caldwell
