Books, Art and Activities

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

Introduce children to the fascinating world of nature! Floppers & Loppers features simple text and award-winning photography by ...

Peepers & Peekers features simple text and award-winning photography by Stan Tekiela. This board book allows readers to gaze int...

The fantastic Legend team of Kathy-jo Wargin and Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen have another beautiful book to add to the Sleeping Bear and Mackinac Is...

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...

Get to know black bears, brown bears, and polar bears like never before—through Stan Tekiela’s wildlife photography, personal anecdotes, and years ...

An exciting picture book to teach children what it's like to live in a jungle! From plants and animals to people and the remains of ancient civiliz...

Sand dunes are among the most rugged and beautiful natural wonders of Michigan's shorelines. These sandy edifices-at once substantial and ephemeral...

Northern Michigan is undergoing unprecedented changes in land use, climate, resource extraction, and species distributions. For the last hundred ye...

Isle Royale National Park—with its lush northern landscape, wolves, and moose—is an ideal laboratory for wildlife biologists. For nearly half a cen...

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...

Spirit, as Robert Bissell says, is nearly impossible to describe. It’s full of magic and mystery, and you can find it only when you allow yourself ...

This fun kit includes everything one needs to create a travel journal! Some pages have writing prompts while others are left to one's imagination. ...

Learn to draw and have fun while learning about Pollinators and Plants! Includes everything you need to draw these amazing creatures. Use your imag...

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

 Charley Harper’s What’s in the Rain Forest? is a journey through a rain forest. Zoe Burke’s rhyming text introduces young readers to thirty differ...

Charley Harper’s What’s in the Coral Reef? explores the abundance and variety of coral reef sea life. Zoe Burke’s rhyming text introduces young rea...