Sy Montgomery: 23 books
Tamed and Untamed
Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery.
A Mail on Sunday “Critic's Pick” Best Read of the Year
"In their writing and in their lives and in their...
The Good Good Pig
The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
"In loving yet unsentimental prose, Sy Montgomery captures the richness that animals bring to the human experience. Sometimes it takes a too-smart-for-his-own-good pig to open our eyes to what most matters in life.”
—John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
A...
How to Be a Good Creature
A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**A New York Times bestseller!
National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals—her friends—who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.**
Understanding...
The Magnificent Migration
On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Sibert medalist and National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery takes readers on a staggering, emotional journey alongside the greatest land migration on the planet earth—that of the wildebeest across the Serengeti—to explore the mystery and wonder of migration in a sweeping story sure to leave...
by Sy Montgomery, Tianne Strombeck
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2020
Sibert Medalist, National Book Award Honoree, and New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery turns her formidable talents to the story of California condors and the scientists who have fought against their extinction in this installment in the award-winning Scientists in the Field series.
In...
The Soul of an Octopus
A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * Starred Booklist and Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year *...
Inky's Amazing Escape
How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
“Montgomery’s expertise and the gorgeous illustrations make this a fine purchase for libraries serving early elementary students.” —School Library Journal
“The mixed-media illustrations make good use of dynamic spreads, color, and texture—perfect for a book on a master of camouflage....
by Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This myth-busting new addition to the critically acclaimed Scientists in the Field series by Sibert medal winning team Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop is perfect for nonfiction readers looking for more female scientist narratives, or a fresh perspective on an underrepresented animal—Hyenas!
Timely...
by Sy Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montgomery takes her readers on a season-by-season tour of the wilderness that is often as close as the...
Journey of the Pink Dolphins
An Amazon Quest
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
By the acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig.
When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the littleknown pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and dusk, swam through treetops...
Search for the Golden Moon Bear
Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig--has shared with readers her amazing encounters with intelligent octopi, great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but here her muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another...
Birdology
Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur (t)
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from foxes, and mob the author like she’s a rock star. In these pages you’ll also meet Maya and Zuni, two orphaned baby hummingbirds who hatched from...
Spell of the Tiger
The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
From the author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, a book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that lies...
by Sy Montgomery, Keith Ellenbogen
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, is investigating a controversial possibility: Might Cape Cod’s waters serve as a breeding ground for the great white shark, the largest and most feared predatory fish on Earth?
Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen report...
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