Where better to begin ‘green’ education than your own back yard?
When I was a kid, I was lucky enough to spend my days making mud pies, running & crawling through prairie fields & avoiding worms while jumping in puddles. In a sad turn of events, many of today’s children not only suffer from nature deprivation but they now, more than ever, need to start their environmental education early in order to save our strained Mother Earth.
Luckily, new company The Little Environmentalists has just released the first in their series of children’s books addressing just that. Nature Discovery In My Back Yard is geared for preschoolers & early readers. It follows a little girl as she explores her back yard and discovers what is out there to see when she just takes a little time.
The book sells for just $6.95 and is available from The Little Environmentalist. You can also print this sheet to go along with it.
Win it! We’ve got a copy of Nature Discovery In My Back Yard to give away. To enter, leave a comment on this post before 5 pm mst on October 27, 2008.
CONTEST CLOSED & WINNER EMAILED
October 20th, 2008 at 5:20 am
This would be delightful for my granddaughter.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Please enter me. I wanna win.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:50 am
This would be a wonderful book to read in a preschool classroom.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:55 am
nice book
October 20th, 2008 at 6:10 am
kiddos would love this…does anyone remember when there were alot of forest preserves by the houses to go wondering and exploring and playing in the creek- boy hard to find now
October 20th, 2008 at 8:18 am
This will be great for my grandchildren. Thank you!
October 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am
What an interesting book. I am so looking forward to finally having a backyard to explore!
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October 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I would love to use this in my child care program and with my own children…what a great idea
October 20th, 2008 at 9:28 am
A good one for the young’ un’s.I am a subscriber.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:03 am
We love playing in our yard but can always use some new ideas to expose the kids to nature.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:03 am
My daughter would like this. Please enter me.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:05 am
sounds like a great book!
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:21 am
I would love to win this. Please enter me.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:29 am
This looks like a great book!
October 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
i would like to win i need to learn how to be more green.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
neat book
October 20th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Great book for my niece. Thanks for the chance!
October 20th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Looks like a really handy book! I’d love to read it to my grandchildren!
Thanks
October 20th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
very cool please count me in
October 20th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Would love to win this for my son.
October 20th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
this would be great for youngest
October 20th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Great gift! Great chance
October 20th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
This would be great to read and reminesce with young children.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
hi, my kids will get some fun out of this. thanks!
October 20th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
This looks like a really great book. Thanks for the giveaway.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:44 am
I would love to win this and share it with my children.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:43 am
Looks like an interesting read. Please sign me up for your contest.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:36 am
Count me in!
October 21st, 2008 at 9:02 am
The kids and I would love to win this book.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:08 am
What a great book, please count me in
October 21st, 2008 at 9:15 am
I would love to read this
October 21st, 2008 at 10:02 am
This would be perfect for my little boy as he is growing up. Looks great!
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October 21st, 2008 at 10:23 am
I would love to win this book
October 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
would like this for my curious nephew
October 21st, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Sounds like a good book
October 21st, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Sounds like a good book
October 21st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Thank you for having this. I would love to win this for my 3 little ones. THank you!
tatertot374@sbcglobal.net
October 21st, 2008 at 3:05 pm
i want to win
October 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Sounds like a great read!
October 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Super idea for a book!
October 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I would love to introduce my grand children and great grand children to the wonders of nature. This book would really be useful. Please enter me.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I’d love this book! My son and I often explore in the backyard, this would be a great read!
October 21st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I would love to win this wonderful book.
Thank you!
janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
October 21st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
My son would really like this!
October 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I seriously love you guys!… =D
October 21st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Nice!
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:05 am
What a great prize!
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:03 am
sounds like a wonderful book.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 am
Great idea. Kids need to get back outside and look. Too much time spent with instant gratification of their electronic world.
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
My daughter would love this book. She is so into the outdoors. Thanks for the great giveaway.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 am
I would love to read this with my kids.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
as a kid i spent a lot of time outside as well
the kids would really love this
thanks!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
What a great prize. My son would love this.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 am
enter me!
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
this would be great for my little man….and our backyard
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I’d love this, we are doing all we can to be green!
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Im also a subscriber!
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Please pick me!
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I think this sounds like an interesting book! Would love to win it!
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
This book would be great to explain being green to our son.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:44 am
This would be great for my son!
October 24th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Enter me
October 24th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
just to cool
October 24th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
This would be a great book for my boys!
October 24th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I’m getting greener. Please enter me, thank you
October 24th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
This looks like a lot of fun!
October 24th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
my son would like it
October 24th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
great giveaway! thank you for helping encourage mroe people to go green
October 25th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I love watching children play outside and come up with things you would never expect. I feel my children are fortunate because we have a big backyard. They find the most creative ways to spend their time. I do not know what we would do without it
October 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
My 10 year old god-daughter is already writing (winning and published) essays about our reckless stewardship of our precious environment and natural resources! She’s a little “old” for this book, perhaps, but I think she would enjoy it and it would help her to educate her younger friends!
October 25th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
My two kids and I would enjoy this!
October 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Fantastic book!
October 25th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Would love to encourage the love of the outdoors for my grandkids
October 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Sounds like a great book!
October 25th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Read and discover.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Great for a classroom library, too.
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October 26th, 2008 at 6:59 am
What a neat sounding book! My son loves the outdoors!
October 26th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Great book that I’d love to win!
October 26th, 2008 at 7:39 am
I love books!! I love knowledge!! Enter Me!!
October 26th, 2008 at 8:11 am
This would be great to read with our kids! Thanks for the giveaway!
October 26th, 2008 at 8:15 am
I would love to win this.
October 26th, 2008 at 8:48 am
This book looks great!
October 26th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Thx for this.
October 26th, 2008 at 9:24 am
want to win this
October 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am
My kids love playing outdoors!!
October 26th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
This would be nice for my daughter!
October 26th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
This would be perfect to educate my kids!
October 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I would love to win this
October 26th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
This would be great to discuss nature walks and responcibility to our world. It is a book to start from within a family.
October 26th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
enter me please
October 26th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
a great book..and another great contest..thanks so much!
October 26th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
This book is a great way to teach little kids about the environment!
October 26th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I like exploring close to home and this will help my kid learn.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
This would be a wonderful book to read to my preschoolers.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:48 am
We have a huge backyard that backs up onto some wetlands, with conservation land not far off — so it is not unusual at all to have deer, or turkey, or foxes, or armadillos, or hawks, or owls, or the occasional bear (USUALLY only after dark) — and the squirrels and lizards and tree frogs are seemingly infinite.
BTW — anyone seriously interested in the book SHOULD definitely download the nds.pdf file behind the “this sheet” link waay up top, there… makes an excellent ‘worksheet’ for explorers!
October 27th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Everything we do to inculcate and encourage a sense of ecological responsibility in our children will be effort well spent. The more they know and appreciate, the stronger the web of life we all weave and share.
October 27th, 2008 at 6:02 am
We just saw a deer in our neighbor’s backyard last week. There is a huge eco-world in our backyard and I think this book would help me introduce my 4 year old to it (and I could learn something as well!)
October 27th, 2008 at 8:40 am
PLEASE COUNT ME IN ON THIS AWESOME GIVEAWAY
October 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am
This would be great to read to my grandchildren. We all need to learn more about nature. Thanks for the contest!
October 27th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
My daughter would love this. She is always exploring outdoors.
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October 27th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
This looks like such a great book. I would love to have it for my two boys! Thank you so much for the great contest!
October 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
This would be a great ‘together’ book for us. Thanks!
October 27th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Sweet niblets!
October 27th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Please enter me into the contest. Thanks!
October 27th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
would love this for my curious 6 year old!
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October 27th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Love the books, bring it on; many thanks SW
October 27th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Count me in please.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
What a great prize
October 27th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Brings back wonderful memories of when I was little. My mother read me a book every night, even if they had company. I obviously knew my books by heart, because later on, she told me that i used to say sometimes “Mommy, you skipped a page!” Too bad there’s not enough reading going on now – plus this looks like an adorable book!
October 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
this would be a great Christmas present