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Outdoor School: Animal Watching
The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide
Series: Outdoor School
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This book is perfect for young nature enthusiasts keen to explore the outdoors, families looking for educational adventure, and anyone interested in developing practical animal-watching skills through hands-on activities and journaling.
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A definitive, interactive skill-building guide for exploring the world
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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...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Outdoor School: Spot & Sticker Plants
Quite possibly the most beautiful plant-spotting bucket list. Peel and place each sticker once you've seen each plant, or simply decorate your surroundings to make a plant-spotter's paradise. Welcome to Outdoor School: Spot & Sticker Plants. Finally, a sticker book for the curious and the adventurous. The Outdoor School Sticker series delivers the natural wonders of the world in gorgeous,...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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
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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