Notes on Common Animals

by Anna Botsford Comstock

This special 6"x9" edition has been published by Living Book Press in association with HearthRoom Press.
Originally published in the early 1900's, Anna Comstock intended that the pupil would use these notebooks, with their teacher- and alongside her Handbook of Nature Study, to create their very own field guides by observing local flora and fauna.
This book, Notes on Common Animals, contains questions about 30 different mammals, an outline of each animal, along with a blank page for the student to write their own story and make their own illustrations about the creature.
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128 pages, Hardcover

Published May 31, 2021

About the author

Anna Botsford Comstock (1854-1930) was an acclaimed author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), is now in its 24th edition. Comstock was an American artist and wood engraver known for illustrating entomological text books with her her husband, John Henry Comstock including their first joint effort, The Manual for the Study of Insects (1885). She wrote Confessions To A Heathen Idol, published in 1906, under the name Marian Lee.