Missing Moose Additional Information

Published by Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing, 2001.

In the summer, North America’s great northern woods are generally peaceful and quiet, with tall evergreens and rolling mountains. When autumn comes around, the peace is broken: The woods echo “with the sound of snorting,” the “ground shakes as massive hooves paw the earth,” and “the very air crackles as enormous antlers clash.” What’s going on? The moose have arrived. This book about “the biggest deer in the world” explores the moose’s habitat, life cycle, antlers, and predators. It also describes the work that scientists do at Isle Royal, Michigan, a living laboratory for moose observation.

Published by Soundprints, 1999.

The boreal forest is the largest forest region in North America, extending across northern Canada and into Alaska. Its ponds and lakes are home to many kinds of wildlife. This story takes you to this beautiful region and follows a moose cow and her newborn calf as they roam the woods and swamplike areas called muskeg.

Published by Dutton Children’s Books/Penguin Putnam, 1987.

One morning in 1986, a moose walked out of a Vermont woods and came face-to-face with a Hereford cow named Jessica. It was love at first sight. The moose came back to visit Jessica daily for the next 76 days. Larry Carrara, the farmer who watched the daily visits, tells this unusual story with full-color pictures. The moose had a daily routine of drinking from an underground spring and rubbing its antlers on low brush or scrub. And then one morning, the moose appeared with only one antler. This was the last visit the moose would make to the farm and to Jessica.