Outdoor School: Animal Watching

Name: Outdoor School: Animal Watching
Brand: Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
SKU: 9781250230836
Price: 34.99 NZD
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The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide

By Odd Dot and Mary Kay Carson

Series: Outdoor School

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Outdoor School: Animal Watching is an immersive, interactive field guide designed to deepen your connection with nature. Packed with 448 full-colour pages and metal corners for durability, it offers a range of activities to inspire exploration and discovery. Readers will learn to track animals, identify birds by silhouette and song, read range maps, spot nests, recognise mammal signs such as scat and eyeshine, and much more—all without prior experience, just curiosity and courage.
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Outdoor School: Animal Watching

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A definitive, interactive, skill-building guide for exploring the world.

A definitive, interactive skill-building guide for exploring the world

Description

Rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-colour, highly illustrated pages, Outdoor School is your indispensable tool for the outdoors. Make every day an adventure with the included:

Immersive activities to get you exploring
Write-in sections to journal about experiences
Next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers

No experience is required—only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide to animals includes:

Animal tracking
Identifying birds by silhouette, size, and colour
Reading animal range maps
Bird nest spotting
Essential animal-watching gear
Identifying mammals
Bird calls and animal sounds
Finding amphibians, reptiles, and fish
Spotting scat
Recognising eyeshine
Recording animal behaviour

And so much more!

Series: Outdoor School

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Outdoor School: Animal Watching

Rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-colour, highly illustrated pages, Outdoor School is your indispensable tool for the outdoors. Make every day an adventure with the included: Immersive activities to get you exploring Write-in sections to journal about experiences Next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers No experience is required—only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide...

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781250230836

Publisher: Odd Dot

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 April 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Odd Dot

Illustration: full color

Contributors:

Illustrated by Emily Dahl

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 212.0mm

Weight: 634g

Pages: 448

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Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Mary Kay Carson Odd Dot Series: Outdoor School

About the Author

Mary Kay Carson is the author of over fifty nonfiction books for young people. Her book Alexander Graham Bell for Kids received a 2019 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books. She's written six titles in HMH's acclaimed Scientists in the Field series, including Park Scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America's Own Backyard and The Bat Scientists, an ALA's 2011 Notable Children's Books for Middle Readers. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her photographer husband Tom Uhlman in a century-old house surrounded by urban greenspace, deer, hawks, woodchucks, and songbirds. Emily Dahl is an illustrator working in Maryland. Her favorite bird is the Carolina Wren.

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