Shining Dawn Books

He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. – Psalm 37:6

Dawn Publications

Cindy | June 14, 2010

I’m in love!  I’m in love!  After reading LOTS (and I mean lots) of books to weed out the best of the best to include in our NaturExplorers units, I have to tell you that it’s very hard to find books that meet all my criteria: Living, interesting, inspirational Factual without being dry Don’t address [...]

Adventure Publication Field Guides

Cindy | May 14, 2010

I recently happened upon a new-to-me field guide publisher that I’m loving.  Adventure Publications puts out small (4 3/8 x 6″), but jam-packed, guides on all sorts of nature subjects.  Most importantly for me, they offer not only general field guides, but many that are state or region specific, too! Don’t let the fact that [...]

Forest Explorer

Cindy | April 13, 2010

Forest Explorer: A Life-sized Field Guide was a terrific recent find at my library.  Our family often walks in woodland areas and this simple field guide has already answered many of our questions about the common critters we see.  Some of which we’ve seen for years and never known what they were! For each season, [...]

Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic

Cindy | April 1, 2010

Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur is another lovely find for our Book Buzz – especially if you’re hoping to inspire your NaturExplorer to write more poetry in his or her nature journal! For every letter of the alphabet, there is an acrostic poem written on the topic of spring.  Not all of the [...]

It’s Spring!

Melissa | March 21, 2010

I have a Book Buzz for you! I’d like to recommend the book It’s Spring authored by Linda Glaser and illustrated by Susan Swan. Of course it is appropriate for this time of year and I feel the book perfectly encapsulates what spring is. It brings it alive and makes you want to get outside [...]