From Bats to Bobcats: Discovering North American Wildlife in Your Backyard and Beyond
Explore the wild world right outside your window! 🌿
A Kid’s Guide to Backyard Animals is a beautifully illustrated book packed with great facts about North American wildlife, from tiny butterflies to majestic deer. 🦊
🦉 Nature in Your Neighborhood: A Kid’s Guide to Backyard Animals is an Excellent Book for Young Explorers
When you step outside into your own yard or a local park, there is a whole world of activity happening just out of sight.
A Kid’s Guide to Backyard Animals is a wonderful children’s book (that adults may enjoy too) that encourages us to slow down and look a little closer at the creatures we share our space with.
Living in an area with diverse wildlife, we have been lucky enough to spot many of these animals in our own backyard—including bats, bobcats, deer, foxes, raccoons, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
This book is inspiring because it provides detailed info about animals that are native to North America, making the great facts feel relevant to a child’s life.
🐿️ Illustrated Insights into Local Wildlife
The illustrations help bring the book to life and make identification easy for little ones.
When kids go on nature walks, they can search for the familiar faces or tracks of the animals they’ve read about.
The book is packed with information that is both educational and fun, covering different motivations and behaviors of local species.
🦌 Encouraging a Passion for the Outdoors
What makes this book unique is how it encourages kids to find their passion for nature.
When children learn about the bats and bobcats that live nearby, they develop a sense of stewardship for their local environment.
It is a thought-provoking resource that proves you don’t have to travel far to find something magical.
Whether you are using it to identify a visitor in your garden or as inspiring reading before a camping trip, this good quality book is a fresh way to explore the world.
It makes a good gift for any young “home cook” of nature who wants to learn the recipes for a healthy ecosystem.
🛒 Discover Your Wild Neighbors
Ready to see your backyard in a whole new way? Bring home a guide that is inspiring, detailed, and full of wonderful discoveries.
Order A Kid’s Guide to Backyard Animals today and start the adventure!
A Kid’s Guide to Backyard Animals
Gibbs Smith
isbn 978-1423668862
Pub Date 3/3/26
Synopsis
Packed with captivating facts about the most common animals in North America, this brightly illustrated guide is perfect for young nature lovers.
Learn all about the amazing animals right outside your door in A Kid’s Guide to Backyard Animals—a handy, easy-to carry guidebook for explorers ages 6 to 8 that shows you how to identify 40 animals that are commonly found in the United States.
The book covers five animal types: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. Kids learn all about these amazing creatures with fascinating facts, how to identify each animal (what it looks like and size), what it eats, whether it’s nocturnal or diurnal, and its habitat and range (including maps).
Check the glossary for animal-related terms you might not know, keep track of the animals you’ve seen in a handy log, and try out a fun DIY project that helps you build a comfortable frog pond.
Author
Eliza Berkowitz
Illustrator
Nicole LaRue
Suggested Ages
6 to 8 years old
1st to 3rd Grade
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