Backyard Wonders: An Illustrated Guide to Finding Balance in Nature
A colorful, charming, and immersive guide to exploring and treasuring the complex, miraculous natural world in your own backyard and beyond.

Backyard Wonders is an illustrated celebration of the vast natural diversity of the world, one that you can find by simply stepping outside. This guide to backyard (or front stoop!) ecology encourages you to notice every sight, sound, and smell—the rustle of falling leaves, the chirping of crickets, the scent of spring rain, and the radiance of the stars above—as a way of understanding the wonders of our complex, beautiful planet.

Interact mindfully with your surroundings and embrace the simple joys offered by the great outdoors while gleaning tidbits of scientific information written to teach and inspire all ages. Each chapter—teeming with gorgeous, intricate nature illustrations—begins with a mindfulness prompt like "Notice the Small Things," "Taste the Wild," or "Discover Patterns," encouraging curiosity about the call-and-response interactions between birds or what a cloud can tell us about the future. Learn about foraging, sacred geometry, moon phases, animal tracks, clouds, weather, and more.

As you leaf through Backyard Wonders, you will find your understanding of nature's everyday feats expanding. Let wonder and curiosity bloom as you embark on this illustrated journey of the outdoors.
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Backyard Wonders: An Illustrated Guide to Finding Balance in Nature
A colorful, charming, and immersive guide to exploring and treasuring the complex, miraculous natural world in your own backyard and beyond.

Backyard Wonders is an illustrated celebration of the vast natural diversity of the world, one that you can find by simply stepping outside. This guide to backyard (or front stoop!) ecology encourages you to notice every sight, sound, and smell—the rustle of falling leaves, the chirping of crickets, the scent of spring rain, and the radiance of the stars above—as a way of understanding the wonders of our complex, beautiful planet.

Interact mindfully with your surroundings and embrace the simple joys offered by the great outdoors while gleaning tidbits of scientific information written to teach and inspire all ages. Each chapter—teeming with gorgeous, intricate nature illustrations—begins with a mindfulness prompt like "Notice the Small Things," "Taste the Wild," or "Discover Patterns," encouraging curiosity about the call-and-response interactions between birds or what a cloud can tell us about the future. Learn about foraging, sacred geometry, moon phases, animal tracks, clouds, weather, and more.

As you leaf through Backyard Wonders, you will find your understanding of nature's everyday feats expanding. Let wonder and curiosity bloom as you embark on this illustrated journey of the outdoors.
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Backyard Wonders: An Illustrated Guide to Finding Balance in Nature

Backyard Wonders: An Illustrated Guide to Finding Balance in Nature

by Kathryn Hunter, Bo Hunter
Backyard Wonders: An Illustrated Guide to Finding Balance in Nature

Backyard Wonders: An Illustrated Guide to Finding Balance in Nature

by Kathryn Hunter, Bo Hunter

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A colorful, charming, and immersive guide to exploring and treasuring the complex, miraculous natural world in your own backyard and beyond.

Backyard Wonders is an illustrated celebration of the vast natural diversity of the world, one that you can find by simply stepping outside. This guide to backyard (or front stoop!) ecology encourages you to notice every sight, sound, and smell—the rustle of falling leaves, the chirping of crickets, the scent of spring rain, and the radiance of the stars above—as a way of understanding the wonders of our complex, beautiful planet.

Interact mindfully with your surroundings and embrace the simple joys offered by the great outdoors while gleaning tidbits of scientific information written to teach and inspire all ages. Each chapter—teeming with gorgeous, intricate nature illustrations—begins with a mindfulness prompt like "Notice the Small Things," "Taste the Wild," or "Discover Patterns," encouraging curiosity about the call-and-response interactions between birds or what a cloud can tell us about the future. Learn about foraging, sacred geometry, moon phases, animal tracks, clouds, weather, and more.

As you leaf through Backyard Wonders, you will find your understanding of nature's everyday feats expanding. Let wonder and curiosity bloom as you embark on this illustrated journey of the outdoors.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780593577752
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date: 04/29/2025
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathryn Hunter is a printmaker and mixed media artist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Since 2003, she has run Blackbird Letterpress, a small printshop that designs, prints, and assembles handmade notebooks, quirky animal-shaped greeting cards, and products featuring inspiring women. She exhibits her fine artwork in galleries across the United States. Her art incorporates animals as characters in the folktale tradition, commenting on false prophets, social justice, America's freedom, and the erosion of our environment.

Bo Hunter is a poet, writer, and musician who recently finished his first novel. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a B.A in English and political science. He currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee and is the brother of Kathryn.
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