Published in association with the Natural History Museum.
Beautifully illustrated, accessible non-fiction for 5 – 9s.
The Magic Garden by Lemniscates
First published in Spain in 2016, this beautifully designed and illustrated book includes six pages of non-fiction text explaining some of the science behind the wonders of nature visited in the earlier pages.
Carme Lemniscates sees each book project as a complete undertaking in which the text, the illustrations and the graphic design converge with the same spirit from beginning to end and that is very much in evidence here.
Toletis by Rafa Ruiz ill. Elena Hormiga tr. Ben Dawlatty
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This is a bestselling Spanish children’s book about nature, friendship imagination and art, now available in a beautifully presented English language translation from Neem Tree Press.
The trees are disappearing and the adults don’t care. Toletis, his dog Amenophis and friends Claudia and Tutan are on a mission to turn their little valley town, set deep in the mountains, lusciously green again. The odds are stacked against them. Can they succeed …with some very unusual help?
Written with a deep appreciation for nature, art, language, music, friendship, family, the passing of time, old age, loneliness, and the importance of sitting still and reflecting on life.
As the cover says, apt for ages 7 to 107.
Nature Art by Jenny Bowers
This box is your one-stop guide to finding, observing, collecting and exhibiting your discoveries, from flowers and blossoms to to pebbles and plants.
Wild Adventures by Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom
Packed (it is!) with all kinds of exciting outdoor activities for children and the whole family and created by a multi-award-winning husband-and-wife team.
Nature’s Day, Out and About by Kay Maguire, ill. Danielle Kroll
Learn how to spot different leaves, birds, flowers, and insects, make a bee hotel, ice art and a daisy chain, colour in different seasonal scenes and collect treasures for your nature box.
Make It Grow by Debbie Powell
A rhyming lift-the-flap board book. The verse is not great but the overall design concept works well, with muted page spreads opening up with bursts of colour under the flaps. A good introduction to colour names and words.
OUTSIDE by Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira Do Rosario & Bernardo P. Carvalho
Created in collaboration with a team of Portuguese experts, this book won the coveted Bologna Regazzi award and aims to arouse curiosity about fauna, flora and other aspects of the natural world.
New children’s book to ‘bring back nature words’
Robert Macfarlane is collaborating with illustrator Jackie Morris on a book called The Lost Words: A Spell-Book. [scheduled for Spring 2017]
Robert Macfarlane, the award-winning writer, is to pen his first book for children in a bid to reinstate nature words back into their vocabularies.
Macfarlane, known for his nature writing for adults, is to produce a children’s picture book featuring flora and fauna that have dropped out of every day use in the new generation.
It is intended to counter an obsession with technology, the indoor lifestyle, and the fashion for “urban dystopia” in children’s literature and films like The Hunger Games.
via New children’s book to ‘bring back nature words’ – Telegraph.
Hayao Miyazaki’s Nature Park for Children
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest project, “The Forest Where the Wind Returns,” isn’t a movie—it’s a nature park!
Keeping with the spirit of many of his films, Miyazaki is donating 300 million yen ($2.5 million USD) of his own money to create a place where children can commune with nature. Although the facility is set to include a 2-story library and sleeping quarters to house up to 30 children from the surrounding area, all the play equipment in the proposed park will incorporate the trees and boulders of the existing landscape (rather than relying on man-made structures). The proposed site is in the Zendo Forest Park on Kume Island (in Okinawa).