Adventures of Riley
8 primary works
Book 1
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 4
Book 7
Book 8
An award-winning, innovative 12-book series that captures the wonder of conservation through a blend of photography, illustration, fiction, and nonfiction. Follow Riley as he joins his uncle Max, a world-renowned biologist, his aunt Martha, and his cousin Alice, on an incredible South African safari. Their mission is to study baby wild animals and predator/prey relationships. Accompanied by local guides, they encounter cheetahs, lions, elephants, wild dogs, baboons, giraffes, and a rare black rhino.
Riley travels with his Cousin Alice, Aunt Martha, and Uncle Max to the Terai region of Nepal and India to research the dwindling tiger population.
It's Panda-monium in China when a rare giant panda mysteriously disappears from the world's largest panda reserve! Riley and family must face remote mountain forests, snow leopards, red pandas, and more in their desperate search for clues. When disaster strikes, Riley must act fast to save the day, and the missing panda.
Are the penguins of Antarctica getting their fill of krill, or has climate change reshaped the Antarctic food web? Riley joins Uncle Max on a voyage to the South Pole to find out! Home to whales, seals, penguins and 90% of the world's ice, Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. Will Riley be trapped by the fierce Antarctic winds? It's an adventure like no other as Riley learns valuable lessons about survival and co-operation.
Riley helps save a pod of dolphins that become trapped in a lagoon in Tahiti.
Riley and family fly north to Churchill, Canada, to watch polar bears hunt seals from the ice of the Hudson Bay. There's just one problem: no ice! For polar bears, no ice means no seals, and without food, the bears can quickly become hungry, weak and dangerous! It's a race against time as everyone searches for clues to this puzzling climate mystery. Will the ice freeze in time-or at all? And will the polar bears finally eat again?
Riley, Cousin Alice, Aunt Martha and Uncle Max visit the Australian outback where they research the local koala population, which has scattered and shrunk due to increased drought, brush fires, and farming in the outback. While staying at a working sheep station, they see kangaroos, a platypus, Uluru and much more. Riley becomes an official jackaroo and helps save the sheep from a wild dingo, but can he find a way to save the koalas and the outback?
Journey to Australia's Great Barrier Reef with Riley and his family as they see what's up down under! Large areas of the coral reef are dying and they need to find out why. Joined by world-renowned marine artist and conservationist, Wyland, the crew faces giant starfish, great white sharks, and even poachers in their search for answers.