TT - Nature Journals

 Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures.  I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books out there hiding on shelves so I invite you to blog about a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library and add your post to Learning All the Time Favourite Resource Link Up. 



This week ...

My Nature Journal

• Format: Hardcover
• Number of Pages: 176
• Vendor:  
• Publishers Pajaro
• Publication Date: 2000
• ISBN: 0967245915
• Author:  Adrienne Olmstead
• Illustrator:  Adrienne Olmstead

For those of you who want a premade nature journal with step by step instructions this is the book for you!
 
From the cover: Start your lifelong adventure into nature with My Nature Journal. This book will help you ... Search for animal tracks in a woodland, Discover a speacial place in a meadow, Find aquatic insects in a stream, Explore tidepools at a seashore, Watch for nocturnal animals at twilight and much much more!

Go to Pajaro.com to view full page samples of this book.  It is available for purchase from Christianbook and Amazon.

Field Trips

• Format: Hardcover
• Number of Pages: 96
• Vendor:  
• Publishers Harper Collins Children's
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN: 978-0-688-15172-0
• Author:  Jim Arnosky
• Illustrator: Jim Arnosky

I love the simplicity and line drawings in this book. Jim's encouraging easy to follow steps make nature journaling easy to do.  Great book.

Harper Collins says: With Jim Arnosky as your guide, an ordinary hike becomes an eye-opening experience. He'll help you spot a hawk soaring far overhead and note the details of a dragonfly up close. Study the black-and-white drawings -- based on his own field research -- and you'll discover if those tracks in the brush were made by a deer or a fox.

In his celebrated style, this author, artist, and naturalist enthusiastically shares a wealth of tips. Jim Arnosky wants you to enjoy watching wildlife. He carefully explains how field marks, shapes, and location give clues for identifying certain plants and animals wherever you are. He gives hints for sharpening observational skills. And he encourages you to draw and record birds, insects, shells, animal tracks, and other finds from a busy day's watch.


Available to purchase from Amazon and Book Depository

Blessings