Children's Science & Ecology

Girls belong outdoors! This handbook covers everything you need to get outside, including ideas for what to do, camping and hiking basics, body stuff in the wilderness, advanced skills like maps, weather, and first aid, as well as recipes, projects, activities, and profiles of inspiring outdoorswomen.

See to Learn: Forest is the first book in a series of non-fiction picture books for very young children, using lyrical phrasing to encourage a sensitive perception of the natural world and a caring connection with it.

Did you know:
Elephants poop enough to fill the trunk of a family car... every day?
Fossilized poop is called coprolite and scientists have found coprolites even older than the dinosaurs?
Termite colonies use their own poop to help build castles as tall as a house?

Trees are teachers, healers, protectors, creators. They keep secrets. They bring peace. This rich anthology of stories, proverbs, and poems about trees from around the world reveals that a tree's roots not only go down deep into the earth, but its branches also reach up and out into the universe, connecting us all, across time and space.

All it takes is one: one coral gamete to start a colony, one person to make a difference, one idea to change the world. The ongoing efforts to save and rebuild the world's coral reefswith hammer and glue, and grafts of newly grown coralare the living legacy of Ken Nedimyer, founder of the Coral Restoration Foundation.