What's on the bookshelf?

Even though it weighs as much as a small baby, The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock is Ms. Fernybunch's go to guide for all things nature. She loves the blend of imaginative stories and description Mrs. Comstock includes to bring objects of nature to life. Such as the section about galls (p. 335) comparing the passage of a small wasp out of the gall to someone eating their way out of a sponge cake.