Come, take a walk in the mountains with this beautiful companion for outdoor adventures.
If you’ll be exploring the Sierra Nevada range with kids, be sure to bring along this slender, illustrated book featuring a collection of commonly found natural wonders in their mountain habitat.
This highly visual, place-based natural history weaves together simple identification keys and whimsical, factual insights, clearly organized by trees, wildflowers, shrubs, mammals, and birds. Written by a Montessori teacher expressly to foster observation skills and a love of nature in young children, with a depth of information and full-color watercolors that will engage the whole family.
Innehållsförteckning
CONTENTS:
6 Trees
8 Quaking Aspen
9 Incense Cedar
10 Mountain Alder
11 Lodgepole Pine
12 Jeffrey Pine
14 Canyon Live Oak
15 Pacific Dogwood
16 Sugar Pine
17 White Fir
18 Mammals
20 Coyote
21 Chipmunk
22 Chickaree (Douglas Squirrel)
23 Black Bear
24 Western Gray Squirrel
25 Mule Deer
26 Shrubs
27 Wild Rose
28 Manzanita
29 Bitterbrush
30 Wildflowers
32 Lupine
33 Giant Red Paintbrush
34 Crimson Columbine
35 Woolly Mule’s Ears
36 Birds
38 Steller’s Jay
39 White-Headed Woodpecker
40 Northern Flicker
41 Red-Breasted Nuthatch
42 Mountain Chickadee
43 Rufous Hummingbird
44 American Robin
46 Glossary
47 Natural History Resources
48 Author’s Note
48 About the Author and Illustrator
Om författaren
Alex Bailey is a fine artist and scientific illustrator with a bachelor’s degree in geology and a master’s degree in environmental geochemistry. She grew up in California and spent much of her childhood visiting the Sierra Nevada. She now lives in Reno, Nevada, and draws artistic inspiration from her scientific background, her curiosity about the natural world, and her adventures hiking, rock climbing, and backcountry skiing.
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