Books, Art and Activities

What is Earth's surface made of? Which natural resources are renewable? Why isn't it the same time everywhere? The Do You Know?™ series provides in...

From the author/illustrator team behind Good Trick, Walking Stick comes a book about a glorious glowing insect! Fireflies (or lightning bugs) are s...

Kids explore nature at night with scavenger hunts, flashlight games, and field guides for nocturnal creatures with a real magnifying glass, sticker...

Christmas is coming and it’s time to get a full night’s rest at the North Pole. Santa checks in on all his reindeer to make sure they’re tucked in ...

Paws & Claws features simple text and award-winning photography by Stan Tekiela. This board book demonstrates the many different uses of animal...

At one time prairies covered about 40% of the United States, but today only about 1% of North American prairies exist. P is for Prairie Dog: A Prai...

For anyone who has ever dipped a toe in one of its Great Lakes, walked through one of its golden forests, or stood atop one of its sandy dunes, the...

What's a great outdoor family activity? What animal is descended from dinosaurs, pollinates plants, flies thousands of miles annually, can weigh le...

Did you know . . . ? Michigan is seventeenth in oil production in the United States. The Great Lakes are said to be the only glacially produced st...

For four decades, Rosalind Wise has quietly created paintings of flowers and wild gardens. At a glance, many people may see only a simple meadow, w...

Introduce children to the fascinating world of nature. Snouts and Sniffers features simple text and award-winning photography. The bo...

Soft cover book with staple binding48 pages feature a variety of puzzles, creative projects, and brain teasersSize: 8½ x 11 in. Inspired by Molly H...

With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species! The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, ba...

This picture book biography examines the life and career of naturalist and artist Anna Comstock (1854-1930), who defied social conventions and purs...

The Story of Olaus and Mardy Murie, Defenders of Nature! Mardy and Olaus Murie fell in love in (and with) Alaska. Then set out on an adventure acro...

The Legend of the Lady's Slipper is a suspenseful tale of a young maiden's run through the forest in an attempt to save the people of her village. ...

Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migra...

Educators have long known about the positive effects that come from journaling. This log book by DeAnna Brandt is designed to help build the self-e...

The Perfect Introduction to Journaling and to Nature! The positive effects of journaling—especially for children—have been celebrated for decades. ...

Enter the World of the Eagle with Stan’s Amazing Photography! If you’ve ever seen an eagle fly gracefully over an unbroken forest or watched it sna...

Animals are amazing — you might even say they’re super! They have special abilities that you’ve only seen in comic books and on your favorite carto...

Do beavers need blankets? Do cougars catnap? Children might wonder if animals sleep like they do, all tucked into bed. This book illustrates what a...

Laugh and learn with fun facts about trees like the redwood, white oak, royal palm, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and star...

Laugh and learn with fun facts about caterpillars, moths, different kinds of butterflies, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style an...