Encourages young readers to explore nature and offers information on plants, animals, and careers in nature work.

"The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers’ minds. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms of protection. To read The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world within...

Take a global tour in four themed episodes, answering the simplest questions about the complex forces that shape our planet. Why is water blue? How can a shape defy gravity? Why do bees make hexagonal honeycombs? And how do these things affect our own lives? Discover what lies beneath Earth's startling beauty as we reveal the secrets of our cosmos and the natural forces that govern everything within it.

Three friends set out on a day hike to explore their local forest, intending to climb to the top of the hill, where they will plant a flag, read a poem, and release feathers into the wind.

Offers a selection of math based activities that can be done with things found around and inside a home throughout the year, from timing how long it takes a snowman to melt and counting clouds to drawing coordinates and creating patterns.

Poses questions about nature, such as why birds sing and why leaves turn brown.

"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads ... Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world"--

Presents facts about plants and seeds combined with such nature projects as pressed flowers, butterfly clips, seed mosiacs, and fruit t-shirts.

"Esta novela de Richard Powers contiene varias historias con un común denominador: las relaciones entre el ser humano y el bosque. Son narraciones agrupadas bajo los epígrafes o subtítulos de Raíces, Tronco, Copa y Semillas: un jefe de carga de las Fuerzas Aéreas en Vietnam sale disparado por el cielo y se salva al caer sobre un baniano. Un artista hereda cien años de retratos fotográficos, todos del mismo castaño americano maldito. Una universitaria...