A Field Guide to Autumn (Field Guide series)

Play and learn in nature

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Packed with poems, hands-on activities and fascinating facts, this guide is designed to be taken into the wild to encourage curiosity, creativity and connection with nature

Experience the sights, sounds and smells of autumn as this little book guides you through the season’s changes.

Go berry picking, make art out of fallen leaves, identify mushrooms, and build a woodland den. Discover why the weather changes in autumn and how animals prepare for winter.

The book features lyrical poems, hands-on crafts and activities, scientific facts, and identifier pages to help children spot different spiders, leaves and fungi. Whether a child’s access to nature is in the form of an urban park, a private garden, a field, or a forest, there is so much to discover and experience.

Inspired by the Forest School movement, this book in the Field Guide series will build on a child's natural curiosity about the world around them, and will help them establish a connection with nature at an early age that will go on to last a lifetime.
Extent: 64 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: 64
Publication date: 2024-09-05
Size: 21.7 x 15.2 cm
ISBN: 9780500653524

Press Reviews

A lovely series of field guides that encourage an appreciation for and reverence of nature while including valuable information and fun activities for kids. Dawnay presents two interactive volumes filled with poetry, sidebars, prompts, and infographics that will inspire kids to use all of their senses to explore the many factors that make each season special… The painterly illustrations truly set these titles apart. Brouwers uses vivid colors to depict the awe-inducing markers of each season
School Library Journal




About the Authors

Gabby Dawnay is a writer and poet. She is the author of over twenty books for children including the bestselling If I had a... series. She is a regular contributor to OKIDO magazine and a scriptwriter for children’s television. Dorien Brouwers is an award-winning illustrator and author from the Netherlands. Based in the UK, she won the Cross Category Award in the 2022 AOI World Illustration Awards, a Gold in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 55th Illustrator’s Exhibition.
Louise Black is Deputy Headteacher at Griffin Primary School in London. She is passionate about the outdoors and holds her Level 3 Forest School Leader qualification. Black runs regular Forest School sessions and supports providing outdoor learning for all children.

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