Nature Discovery In My Backyard - Review & Giveaway

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Nature Discovery In My Backyard

Author:  Rebecca Mattano

Paperback: 16 pages
Publisher: The Little Environmentalists LLC; 1st edition (2008)

Synopsis: Children will use their senses to explore nature. They will smell, hear, feel, and see their way through their own backyard nature discovery. Each page offers a unique look into nature with colorful pictures that will challenge your children to find all that nature has to offer. In the back of the book parents and educators will find amazing tips for going on a nature discovery with their children and students anytime of the year! The Nature Notes in the back of the book provide exciting information about the plants and animals in our nature discovery. This book also links to the Model Early Learning Standards so educators can use this book a a teaching tool.

As a kid, the home I lived in had a huge backyard and an even bigger front garden. One of my earliest pleasures was to sit in the velvety grass and watch the butterflies and wonder at the shapes the clouds made. As I grew older, I began to climb trees and collecting the feathers of the various birds that flocked to our trees was a joyous activity. Nature was around me and I was in my element, enjoying it to the full. It's something I want for my own kids. But that's not easy these days what with the lure of Television and Xbox that hold the kids indoors. Which is why I was happy to accept when given an opportunity to review this book, which is something that seems to have come out of my own childhood!

Nature Discovery In My Backyard is the first book in a series of children's books by The Little Environmentalists, LLC. It's a book that educates adults and children alike about the wonders of nature. You don't have to go far - just into the backyard will do. With simple words and illustrative photographs, the author explains how children can use their sense of smell, sight, touch and hearing to explore the greenery around them and be enchanted with the marvels of nature that permeates every part of it. There's a surprise waiting to be discovered on a tree, in the air, under a log, everywhere you look.

To help parents and educators enhance their "green" lessons, the book offers tips on nature for every season of the year. Interesting educational facts on plants and animals are described in the back of the book. In My Backyard retails for $6.95 and is available online at the publisher's website and at Amazon.com. Beyond the children's books, environment lessons continue online at their website with a nature discovery sheet and links to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instructor's Model Early Learning Standards which utilizes this book as a tool in the state's classrooms.

The Little Environmentalists proudly print their books on 100% recycled paper with 100% post consumer waste that is chlorine free and non-toxic toner.

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A copy of "Nature Discovery In My Backyard"

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Deadline   Midnight CST of "December 8th".

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