Recommended reading on nature related topics from librarians at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library.   

Why Do Bears Sleep All Winter?
By:  Mary Englar 

Find at your library: [print] 

A brief explanation of hibernation, including what hibernation is, why animals hibernate, and how they do it. - Provided by publisher 

Winter Light
By: Aaron Becker 

Find at your library: [board book] 

With jewel like die-cuts revealing the colors of the season against soft painterly backgrounds, Aaron Becker captures the light of winter skies and lengthening days, the glow of candle and hearth, and the heart's yearning for spring's return. - Amazon

Counting Winter
By: Nancy White Carlstrom 

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One red fox walks across the white snow quietly stalking winter. Two ravens croak and gurgle raucously talking winter. Three snowshoe hares hop on big paws silently tracking winter. Four red squirrels feast at their midden full of cones hungrily cracking winter. Wherever you look, another creature is making its mark on the snow-covered season. - Amazon 

I Don’t Wanna Hibernate!
By: Anna Ouchchy 

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As snow gently blankets the land, the Groundhogs prepare for their long, snuggly hibernation. But little Tess is wide awake. Tess's parents try everything to get her to sleep, but she knows every trick in the book. When Mommy and Daddy fall asleep without her, will Tess be able to stay up all winter? Or will she snore her way through Groundhog Day? - Provided by publisher 

Over and Under the Snow
By: Kate Messner 

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Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter. - Bibliocommons 

Hibernation
By: Nelson Robin 

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Hibernation is a cycle that some animals go through every year. Most people know that bears hibernate. But why do they hibernate? And what other animals hibernate? - Bibliocommons 

The Human Hibernation
By: Anna Cornudella Castro (director) 

Find at your library: [streaming video] 

A brother and sister are hibernating. Only the sister wakes up. Human hibernation blurs the boundary between people and animals. A thought experiment equal parts sci-fi and meditation shot in searing images. - Bibliocommons 

Early Riser
4By: Jasper Fforde 

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Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies dangerously close to death as they enter an ultra-low metabolic state of utterly dreamless sleep. All humans, that is, apart from the Winter Consuls, a group of officers who diligently watch over the vulnerable sleeping citizens.  - Provided by publisher 

The Time Nature Keeps
By: Helen Pilcher 

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Take a visual journey of discovery through the animal and plant kingdoms -- and uncover the extraordinary rhythms of nature! Spanning ideas both big and small -- from evolution to animal behavior -- The Time Nature Keeps is a visual trove of nature's clocks that brings the worlds cadences to life before our eyes. - Bibliocommons