Back in print, the classic children's science book, winner of the National Book Award for children's literature. <I>The View from the Oak</I>, winner of the National Book Award for children's literature, is a groundbreaking work from two of our most respected educators, teaching children and adults alike the wonders of science and the natural world. With a new, illustrated paperback edition, The New Press brings back to print this award-winning classic exploration of ethology, or the way animals perceive their environment, examining the strange but marvelous ways in which living creatures from whales to spiders experience space, sense time, and communicate with one another. What do flowers in a meadow look like to a bee? What does the world look like to a snake who "sees" by detecting minute temperature changes? What is it like to live in the water strider's two-dimensional universe? <I>The View from the Oak</I> helps readers enter the fascinating and often invisible world of nature with hands-on games and activities in a "superb book for families to share" (<I>Winston-Salem Journal</I>).