An essential guide to encourage children to explore, enjoy and benefit from the natural world around them.
Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to enhance this time spent outside and show children how nature can be fun, uplifting, consoling, and even offer companionship.
This is a book about how nature can touch us all and help us with our lives (especially when we might be feeling bored, sad, or lonely). Children learn about the ways in which they can be comforted, inspired, and uplifted by examples of nature such as:
– a flowing river
– a cow in a field
– clouds in the sky
– rabbits in their burrows
– stars at night
– or a cuddle with a favorite puppy.
This is an inspirational book, not just educating children about the natural world, but teaching them to love and connect with it. Beautiful illustrations and a tone that is encouraging, warm and accessible makes it easy for children, and their favorite adults, to relate to.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction
1. Aldebaran: sometimes it’s nice to feel small
2. The leopard shark: understanding what’s scary
3. The giant redwood tree: don’t waste your time!
4. The scorpion: you are the expert!
5. The flatfish: life is amazing and pretty weird!
6. You are a hedgehog!
7. A puppy knows you’re fantastic
8. Being happy like a cow
9. The view from a plane window can help you feel calm
10. Clouds come for free
11. Sunshine: do you know why you’re feeling grumpy?
12. The okapi: feeling confident
13. The Alps: feeling big on the inside
14. The river: the stages of life
15. A rabbit burrow: feeling cosy
16. Chimpanzees: why it’s tough being human
17. The Arabian Desert: why your brain is like a cupboard
18. The stone pine: being resourceful
19. The giant anteater: it’s okay to feel sad
20. The swallow: there are lots of ways of being clever
21. The African dromedary camel: realising things won’t be perfect
22. The spider’s web: delicacy
23. The Femminello lemon: hope
24. The ant colony: cooperation
25. Cherry blossom: nature is beautiful
26. Bamboo: resilience
27. The fig: small pleasures
28. The clump of grass: one way to stop feeling bored
29. The snail: how to carry your home with you
30. The mother elephant: why parents fuss
31. The window box: helping things grow
32. Lightning: the difference between imagination and understanding
33. The horizon of the sea: being an explorer
Om författaren
Tyla Mason is an illustrator based in Cape Town, South Africa. She graduated from Cape Town Creative Academy with a BA in Communication Design, and has since created illustrations for Casimir magazine, Rookie, and Malala Fund. A lot of her work centers around girlhood and education, with a character-driven style that is colorful and engaging.
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