012 Nature, Notebooks, and Ambre's Roxaboxen Cemetery

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Resources referenced:

• HearthRoom Press

• Ambleside Online

• Living Book Press

• Purple House Press

• Smidgen Press

• Wingspan Board Game

• Wild + Free (find a group near you!)

• Hamilton the Broadway Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Naturalists, authors, illustrators and other nature study and agriculturalist influencers from the turn of the century that Kelly covered in her fascinating history lesson:

• Anna Botsford Comstock

• Liberty Hyde Bailey

• John Spenser

• Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Books reviewed in this episode:

Featured books:

• Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock

• The Nature Notebook Series by Anna Comstock

• The Comstocks of Cornell―The Definitive Autobiography by Comstock edited by Karen Penders St. Clair

• Creating New and Better Plants: Luther Burbank by Paul Bacon

• Book on the Inklings still in process by John Hendrix of The Faithful Spy

• Pocketful of Pinecones by Karen Andreola

• Trees At Leisure by Anna Comstock

• Jim Arnosky’s books- Secrets of a Wildlife Watcher, Field Trips: Bug Hunting, Animal Tracking, Bird-watching, Shore Walking, Sketching Outdoors in Autumn, Drawing Life in Motion

• We Are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines

• Insects in their World by Su Zan N. Swain

• The Story of Spiders by Dorothy Shuttlesworth Illustrated by Su Zan Noguchi Swain

• Peterson Guides- the vintage illustrated copies

• Creekfinding: A True Story by Jacqueline Briggs Martin illustrated by Claudia McGehee

• Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran illustrated by Barbara Cooney

• The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown

Thank you so much for joining us today! Please, be sure to visit Kelly’s website to find all the wonderful books and Nature Study helps she offers!

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