Honorable Mention of the 2013 National Outdoor Book Awards. Nature is a destination, but you don't have to travel anywhere to find it. Just open the door and step outside. A fun, hands on approach to getting involved in nature, The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book is a year-round how-to activity guidebook for getting kids outdoors and exploring nature, be it catching fireflies in the cool summer evenings; making birdfeeders in the fall from peanut butter, pine cones, and seed; building a snowman in 3 feet of fresh winter snow; or playing duck, duck, goose with friends in a meadow on a warm spring day. The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book includes 448 things to do in nature for kids of all ages--more than one activity for every single day of the year. Each of the year's four seasons includes fifty checklist items, fifty challenge items, three each of projects, destinations, garden recipes, and outdoor games. Throughout the book, you'll also find fascinating facts, useful tips and tricks, and plenty of additional resources to turn to. Complete with whimsical, vibrant illustrations, this book is a must for parents and their kids.

Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up

Children's Books

Tornio, Stacy

Keffer, Ken

Science, Nature & How It Works

Falcon Guides

Does moss only grow on the north side of a tree? Is the North Star really the brightest star? Will a mother bird abandon its baby if you put it back in its nest? Will toads really give you warts? The Truth About Nature answers all of these questions and more. This useful compendium for parents and children to read together sets the record straight on nature myths once and for all. It breaks down 144 everyday nature myths, identifying how true the myth really is, with the book’s unique “myth scale” (level 1 being somewhat true to level 3 being a complete myth). Organized by season and covering facts that are so strange they must simply be false (but they’re true!), this interactive guidebook also offers readers the chance to do their own science experiments to bust a few myths on their own.

Truth About Nature: A Family's Guide to 144 Common Myths about the Great Outdoors

The family that gardens together, grows together! In this beautiful, project-by-project guide, mom and master gardener Stacy Tornio will inspire gardeners young and old to explore, innovate, and cultivate through simple projects that will get a garden growing at any time of year. Your whole family be inspired to: <ul>
<li>Tend beautiful, practical gardens that work in any space</li>
<li>Plant flowers as colorful as they are hardy</li>
<li>Whip up delicious meals from vegetables you planted yourself</li>
<li>Decorate your garden with nature-inspired crafts</li>
<li>Give the gift of growing, with divided plants, cuttings, and seeds you save yourself</li>
</ul>
 Best of all, whether you are tending flowerbeds in spring, stewing July's tomatoes, or coaxing bulbs to bloom mid-winter, you'll be doing it together.

Project Garden: A Month-by-Month Guide to Planting, Growing, and Enjoying ALL Your Backyard Has to Offer

Adams Media

Bird Nests (Nature’s Engineers)

Some birds make their nests out of grass, twigs, and leaves. Others use mud, fur, or feathers. They might even use paper or yarn. Find out more in Bird Nests, a title in the Natures Engineers series. Natures Engineers is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. Each title in the series features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging educational activity. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.

Animals

"Some birds make their nests out of grass, twigs, and leaves. Others use mud, fur, or feathers. They might even use paper or yarn. Find out more in Bird Nests, a title in the Natures Engineers series. Natures Engineers is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. Each title in the series features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging educational activity. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more."

The Secret Lives of Animals is the perfect mix of field guide know-how and armchair entertainment. In addition to the standard field guide notes and range maps, the meat of the book will offer up “spark moments” in nature—something fascinating or memorable that catches your attention and sets you on a path of lifelong learning. The Secret Lives of Animals will feature more than 100 North American animals and over 1,000 tidbits in a fun, colorful, illustrated format.

The Secret Lives of Animals: 1,001 Tidbits, Oddities, and Amazing Facts about North America's Coolest Animals

Nature is filled with animals. Whether you go exploring in your own backyard or like to climb mountaintops, you’re sure to encounter birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and all kinds of amazing mammals along the way. But did you know that a queen bee can lay up to 1,000 eggs in a day? Or that huge, dinosaur-like dragonflies used to exist? Organized in a see, learn, do format, The Kids’ Ultimate Animal Adventure Book first lays the groundwork for observing and learning about animals—from their behavior and habitat to the truths and myths about them. Then it jumps into lots of animal-related activities, like going owling, planting a garden for butterflies, and catching frogs!

The Kids' Ultimate Animal Adventure Book: 745 Quirky Facts and Hands-On Activities for Year-Round Fun

Be an adventurous kid! Conquer a rock wall, go ziplining, create a geocache at your favorite nature hangout, camp without a tent. Most importantly, get your hands dirty. 101 Outdoor Adventures to Have Before You Grow Up offers up season-by-season activities, games, and challenges to get kids in the outdoors and loving it. With a striking visual style meant for big kids, this is the perfect book for that middle-age group who aren’t little anymore, but haven’t yet hit those teenage years. Winner of the 2019 National Outdoor Book Award for Children's Books.

101 Outdoor Adventures to Have Before You Grow Up

Tornio, Jack

Activities, Crafts & Games

It's hard to resist a scavenger hunt. Give kids a list of things to find, and they naturally want to turn it into a game and start checking things off. Add in an outdoor and nature twist, and the game is elevated to a whole new level--and what an amazing opportunity to engage kids and families with nature in a whole new way. The Ultimate Book of Scavenger Hunts will help turn every outdoor outing into a scavenger hunt, with plenty of things for your family to look for, discover, and learn about. Geared towards families with kids ages 4-10, the hunts are geared to just about any location--from city to farm to beach to mountains. The book includes a leveled difficulty rating system so you can find both easy and difficult items within each hunt (1 being easy, 2 medium, 3 hard). Each hunt comes complete with factoids and information about the items on the list, and each item is accompanied by a colorful spot illustration so that the hunter can easily identify what they are looking for.

The Ultimate Book of Scavenger Hunts: 42 Outdoor Adventures to Conquer with Your Family

Sports & Outdoors

"I kill everything I plant." Does this sound like you or someone you know? Give yourself a pat on the back because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. And lucky for you, you can easily turn your brown thumb into a green one with the help of Plants You Can’t Kill. Seriouslyit doesn’t matter how many plants you’ve killed in gardens past. It’s time to put those experiences behind you and finally grow something in your empty and bare spots. This is the only gardening book you’ll ever need with more than 100 plant picks for every situation. You want veggies? We have ’em. You need to fill a big space? We have shrub ideas for you. You just want something pretty? We have plenty of that, as well. The plants in Plants You Can’t Kill have been vetted by an amazing and famous panel of horticulture experts (this is just a fancy way of saying they went to college for gardening), so feel confident you’re not wasting money on yet another gardening book. These plants will actually survive your well-meaning, yet sometimes neglectful ways. Ready for the most resilient, hardcore, badass list of plants known to gardeners? Find them and grow them with the help of Plants You Can’t Kill.

Plants You Can't Kill: 101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Skyhorse Publishing

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Books by Tornio, Stacy

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Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up

Truth About Nature: A Family's Guide to 144 Common Myths about the Great Outdoors

Project Garden: A Month-by-Month Guide to Planting, Growing, and Enjoying ALL Your Backyard Has to Offer

Bird Nests (Nature’s Engineers)

Bird Nests (Nature’s Engineers)

The Secret Lives of Animals: 1,001 Tidbits, Oddities, and Amazing Facts about North America's Coolest Animals

The Kids' Ultimate Animal Adventure Book: 745 Quirky Facts and Hands-On Activities for Year-Round Fun

101 Outdoor Adventures to Have Before You Grow Up

The Ultimate Book of Scavenger Hunts: 42 Outdoor Adventures to Conquer with Your Family

Plants You Can't Kill: 101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners