Journal Sparks!
ISBN 9781612126524
Regular price $22.95Journal Sparks! Fire Up Your Creativity with Spontaneous Art, Wild Writing, and Inventive Thinking
By Emily K. Neuburger
Using words, drawing, collage, and observation-based list-making, Journal Sparks highlights the many paths into journaling.
With 60 interactive writing prompts and art how-tos, you’ll expand your imagination and spark your creativity.
Every spread invites a new approach to filling a page, from making a visual map of a day-in-my-life to turning random splotches into quirky characters for a playful story.
It’s the perfect companion to all those blank books and an ideal launch pad to explore creative self-expression and develop an imaginative voice.
Recommended for children beginning ~8-10 years old to do on their own, but truly suited for any child older than this right through to adults of all ages.
Softcover, 164 pages.
Storey Publishing, 2017.
Nest Notes from Lisa: Some of the activities are also well-suited to doing together, with a parent and child, or for children to do together. We found a few games and activities to do together as fun family time and wind-down in the evenings before bedtime when my children were just 5 and 7 years old. Others I'm looking forward to doing alone or with them as they get older. It definitely sparks some good creativity and joy and exploration and enthusiasm in us when we pick up this book. The printing by Storey was so well done as well, with respect to the paper and inks. It's just a lovely treasure trove that will continue to spark for years in our home. The notion of journalling as an activity that can be done in more ways than one, not just with a pencil and paper, but in various art forms, opens up our minds to why we journal, and to the activity of exploration and the joy and discovery always waiting for us.
Reviews:
“A visually adorable and joyful book full of inspiring and creative ideas for seeing, gathering, and experimenting. You will stay motivated to create for a long time!”
(Jennifer Orkin Lewis, artist and illustrator at augustwren.com)
“A great roadmap for getting started with journaling. These thoughtful writing prompts and playful art activities will inspire and engage!”
(Susan Schwake, best-selling author of Art Lab for Kids series)
“My family’s favorite kind of any-age book. These friendly, fabulous, and imaginative prompts are great for journaling but they’re also approachably small, stand-alone creative projects. You’ll soon be busy charting your world of favorite things and places and words and dreams.”
(Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness)
“I dare you to make it halfway through this book without running to grab your journal and a pencil! This trove of inspiring and practical ideas encourages us to push our creative boundaries and revel in the play between words and pictures.”
(Alexandra Kennedy, executive director of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art)
“Transcendent! At a time when all of us — children and adults — are deluged with pixels and information, Emily Neuburger inspires us to use a journal to notice, feel, connect, and reflect.”
(Sam Intrator, professor of education and child study at Smith College)
Nature Journal
ISBN 9781580172967
Regular price $26.95A Guided Journal for Illustrating and Recording Your Observations of the Natural World
By Clare Walker Leslie
Combining the knowledge of a pocket almanac with the freedom offered by a blank notebook page, this guided nature journal will motivate you to explore your surroundings in depth. Quick sketches of cloud formations, plant structure, and animal anatomy open up your artistic mind, while quotes and writing prompts are scattered throughout for further inspiration. Build a greater awareness of yourself and the world around you as you fill this journal with personal reflections on the raw beauty of nature.
Whether you live in the heart of a city or in a shady suburb, on a farm or in a small town, there are growing things and wild creatures all around you to observe and record. This Nature Journal will guide your exploration and deepen your appreciation for the beauty of nature.
Many pages with thoughtful and insightful tips for how to get started observing, sketching, and recording your environment, wherever you may be in nature.
Hardcover. 176 pages. Storey Publishing, 2003.
19.4 x 2.1 x 25.7 cm.
Keeping a Nature Journal
ISBN 9781635862287
Regular price $29.95 Sale price $25.50 Save 15%Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You
By Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth. Foreword by Edward O. Wilson.
Originally published in 2000 with endorsements from E.O. Wilson and Jane Goodall, Clare Walker Leslie’s Keeping a Nature Journal was at the forefront of the nature observation and journaling movement. Leslie’s approach has long been acclaimed for its accessible style of teaching people to see, witness, and appreciate the wonders of nature, and her classic guide is still used by individuals, groups, and educators ranging from elementary school teachers to college-level instructors. The third edition features more of Leslie’s step-by-step drawing techniques, a new selection of pages from her own journals (which she’s kept for 40 years), and an expanded range of prompts for observing particular aspects of the natural world in any location. With an emphasis on learning to see and observe, Leslie shows how drawing nature doesn’t require special skills, artistic ability, or even nature knowledge, and it is a tool everyone can use to record observations and experience the benefits of a stronger connection to the natural world.
Experience the splendor of nature with fresh eyes! Featuring an inspiring 32 page colour-portfolio from Clare Walker Leslie’s nature journals, this guide offers easy-to-learn techniques for capturing the world around you in pictures and words. Encouraging you to make journaling a part of your daily routine, Keeping a Nature Journal is full of engaging exercises and stimulating prompts that will help you hone your powers of observation and appreciate new aspects of nature’s endlessly varied beauty.
Softcover. 3rd edition. 224 pages. 2021. Storey Publishing.
8 x 10 inches.
“A wonderful book for young people, this book has also inspired this old gardener to go out and get one of those nice new sketchbooks … ” ― The New York Times
“Leslie’s approachable methods for recording the natural world have inspired many people.” ― New Orleans Times-Picayune
“ … a step-by-step guide to getting started in a fascinating hobby of recording on paper what you see in nature.” ― Cleveland Plain Dealer
“[C]oaches even beginners who think they cannot write or sketch but simply have a love of nature.” ― San Jose Mercury News
“… an excellent teaching tool on how to go about seeing the world in a new way.” ― Indianapolis Star
“This book was very motivating for me personally and I am ready to begin a nature journal. It could be used as a classroom supplement or a tool for personal professional development for all ages … a good resource for informal science organizations such as museums and camps.” ―NSTA Recommends (National Science Teachers’ Association), www.nsta.org
“Here’s a good gift book for gardeners, but also for non-gardeners who nevertheless enjoy communing with the great outdoors.” ― Nashville Tennessean
“Learn to observe nature closely, sketch with confidence, keep accurate records, narrate the changing seasons, and more. Highly recommended for those interested in art journals or nature studies.” – Somerset Studio magazine
Like a string of beads - or pearls these little - or grand - episodes help us link to the larger strand. This stringing of images, thoughts, connections, helps us to have more understanding, reason, compassion, gratefulness. - Clare Walker Leslie, journal entry, September 3, 1997
You can experience a spirited yet tranquil exploration of the living world by creating your own nature journal. In any season, any weather, and any place, nature journaling compels us to slow down, observe, reflect, and once again embrace our connection to the living mosaic that is our environment.
Using the methods Clare Walker Leslie and Chuck Roth have developed over years of journaling teaching, "Keeping a Nature Journal" guides you in creating ongoing journals for all seasons and purposes. You'll also learn techniques from other amateur and professional nature journalists.
Simple methods for capturing what you see in sketches and words will inspire you to make journaling a part of your daily life and will help you create journals to enjoy for years to come.
Using the simple techniques in this book, anyone can learn how to start and keep an ongoing nature journal. Along the way you'll develop skills in observing, sketching, appreciating, and writing about life's beauty and mysteries.
"This creative process is a the heart of natural history observation, and it helps to make the best of experiences also the most lasting in memory for anyone wishing to enjoy it." - From the foreword by Edward O. Wilson
"Drawing, writing and nature study can all seem a bit daunting to the uninitiated, but Keeping a Nature Journal with its friendly, rambling format and unpretentious drawings, makes keeping this kind of living record seem as natural and anxiety - free as taking a snapshot or writing a postcard to a friend. A great guide to discovering nature for yourself and creating your own work of art along to way." - Christopher W. Leahy, Director Center for Biological Conservation, Massachusetts Audubon Society
"This book offers people of all ages and interests a simple, direct method for getting outdoors to observe and enjoy the natural world around them." - Mark Wexler, Editor, National Wildlife
Clare Walker Leslie, author of The Curious Nature Guide, is a nationally known wildlife artist, author, and educator. She has been connecting people of all ages to nature using drawing, writing, and observation of the outdoors for more than 30 years. Her other books include the bestsellers Keeping a Nature Journal and The Nature Connection, as well as Nature Journal and Drawn to Nature. She lives with her husband and family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Granville, Vermont.
Naturalist's Notebook
ISBN 9781612128894
Regular price $26.95 Sale price $25.00 Save 7%by Nathaniel T. Wheelwright , Bernd Heinrich
An Observation Guide and 5-Year Calendar-Journal for Tracking Changes in the Natural World around You
Become a more attentive observer and deepen your appreciation for the natural world. The unique five-year calendar format of The Naturalist’s Notebook helps you create a long-term record and point of comparison for memorable events, such as the first songbird you hear in spring, your first monarch butterfly sighting of summer, or the appearance of the northern lights. Biologist Nathaniel T. Wheelwright and best-selling author Bernd Heinrich teach nature lovers of all ages what to look for outdoors no matter where you live, using Heinrich’s classic illustrations as inspiration. As you jot down one observation a day, year after year, your collected field notes will serve as a valuable record of your piece of the planet. This deluxe book, with a three-piece case, gilt edges, a burgundy ribbon bookmark, and a belly band with gold foil stamping, is a perfect gift for all nature lovers.
Hardback, 208 pages. 8 x 8.5".
Storey Publishing.
About the Authors:
Nathaniel T. Wheelwright is coauthor of The Naturalist’s Notebook with Bernd Heinrich. He is the Bass Professor of Natural Sciences at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The 2015 winner of the Ecological Society of America’s Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education, he is also the author of numerous scientific publications and co-editor of Monteverde: Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest.
Bernd Heinrich is coauthor of The Naturalist’s Notebook with Nathaniel T. Wheelwright and author of more than 20 books on nature, including Mind of the Raven, Winter World, and One Wild Bird at a Time, which are illustrated with his own pen-and-ink drawings and watercolor. Heinrich is Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Vermont and is the winner of the PEN New England Book Award for nonfiction and the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing. He lives in Maine.
Drawn to Nature
ISBN 9781580176149
Regular price $20.00 Sale price $19.00 Save 5%Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie
Whether it’s a bird hopping along the sidewalk, water droplets glistening on a tree, or the color of the sky outside your kitchen window, Clare Walker Leslie encourages us to notice and appreciate the splendors of nature. Drawn to Nature comprises excerpts from 25 years of Leslie’s journals devoted to observing and recording the natural world in words, field sketches, and impressionistic watercolors. Delightfully amusing and deeply passionate by turns, this compilation will inspire you to connect with nature, wherever you live.
Softcover, 176 pages.
Storey Publishing.
“Drawn to Nature from Storey Publishing features a selection of author Clare Walker Leslie’s journal pages that encourages its readers to slow down and look around. The beauty of nature, she says, is in the small details of watching birds before a storm or a squirrel before winter. And it can happen just outside your door in the backyard.” – The Tennessean (Nashville, TN)
“It can be inspiring to look at…Drawn to Nature by Clare Walker Leslie. After a few months of keeping track of nature, you will be able to look back on your own journals and notice not only how the natural world changes around you, but also how you have changed over time. Now that’s worth taking note.” – Island Ad-Vantages (Stonington, ME)
Clare Walker Leslie, author of The Curious Nature Guide, is a nationally known wildlife artist, author, and educator. She has been connecting people of all ages to nature using drawing, writing, and observation of the outdoors for more than 30 years. Her other books include the bestsellers Keeping a Nature Journal and The Nature Connection, as well as Nature Journal and Drawn to Nature. She lives with her husband and family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Granville, Vermont.