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A Kid's Fall EcoJournal inspires kids to write about nature! The author, Toni Albert, has included short entries from her nature journals, which express her irrepressible and unflagging delight in the natural world. The Fall EcoJournal provides cover art and writing pages exquisitely illustrated by Margaret Brandt. Kids can write a poem about the din of wild geese overhead or the crackly sound of leaves underfoot. They can write a fall story or make a list of glorious fall colors. Kids will plunge into writing as enthusiastically as they dive into a pile of bright leaves!

A Kid's Fall EcoJournal: With Nature Activities for Exploring the Season

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A Kid's Summer EcoJournal inspires kids to write about nature. The author, Toni Albert, has included short entries from her nature journals, which express her irrepressible and unflagging delight in the natural world. The Summer EcoJournal provides cover art and writing pages exquisitely illustrated by Margaret Brandt. Kids can write a poem about the the magic-light of fireflies at dusk. They can make nature notes about the critters in a creek or the insect citizens of a tall-grass city. Kids will enjoy writing all summer long!

A Kid's Summer EcoJournal: With Nature Activities for Exploring the Season

A Kid's Spring EcoJournal inspires kids to write about nature! The author, Toni Albert, has included short entries from her nature journals, which express her irrepressible and unflagging delight in the natural world. The Spring EcoJournal provides cover art and writing pages exquisitely illustrated by Margaret Brandt. Kids can write a poem about the smell of spring rain on new grass or the noisy song of spring peepers in a pond. Kids will join the countless writers throughout the ages who have celebrated spring and the excitement of nature renewing itself!

A Kid's Spring EcoJournal: With Nature Activities for Exploring the Season

A Kid's Winter EcoJournal inspires kids to write about nature! The author, Toni Albert, has included short entries from her nature journals, which express her irrepressible and unflagging delight in the natural world. The Winter EcoJournal provides cover art and writing pages exquisitely illustrated by Margaret Brandt. Kids can write a weather diary, a winter adventure story, or a poem about silky, shiny snow.  They can make nature notes about animal tracks in the snow or signs of life beneath the snow. Long winter evenings are not only perfect for reading good books, but for writing them!

A Kid's Winter EcoJournal: With Nature Activities for Exploring the Season

Lush, dreamlike illustrations by Margaret Brandt illuminate Albert's poem, "I Heard the Willow Weep." Author and artist introduce young readers to some of today's most pressing environmental problems, from too much trash to the destruction of rainforests. Part One ends with quiet confidence that with determination, we can restore beauty and health to our earth. In Part Two, the author engages children by offering projects and activities that they will want to try, fascinating EcoFacts, and practical suggestions on how to take better care of our home planet.

I Heard the Willow Weep

"Busy with Bugs" is Margaret Brandt's sixth children's book with Trickle Creek Books. The illustrations required extensive research into the fantastic world of bugs: "I am awed by the infinite diversity, beauty, and uniqueness of these creatures-and the important part they play in the world." "Busy with Bugs" was chosen as the Award-Winner in the Children's Educational category of the "Best Books 2010" Awards, sponsored by USA Book News. The book was also one of six finalists in the Children's Educational category of the 2011 International Book Awards sponsored by JPX Media Group.

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