Earth Almanac: Nature's Calendar for Year-Round Discovery

by Ken Keffer, Jeremy Collins (Illustrator)

Earth Almanac presents the greatest hits of North American nature! Structured around phenology, which is the study of seasonal patterns in nature, the day-by-day descriptions offer insight into activities and connections throughout the natural world.

Beginning with the Winter Solstice in December, Earth Almanac highlights a wide range of natural history, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, intertidal and marine life, trees, plants, fungi, weather phenomenon, geology, astronomy, notable environmental activists, and more, and reveals the ebb and flow of nature across the planet. Each season features more than 90 entries, and sidebars throughout provide calls to environmental action, citizen science opportunities, and details on special dates or holidays. The book can be enjoyed one day, month, or season at a time--dip in and out as you observe the world around you.

Genres: Nature, Nonfiction, Natural History, Outdoors, Science, Environment

256 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2020

Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read it a day at a time or read a few days each sitting (like I did) but I recommend to read it IN season. Become knowledgeable about what’s going on in nature, sometimes far away and sometimes right outside your door. I bet there will be multiple times that after reading a day’s entry you will look outside or you will reminisce about experiencing the information in the past. Either way, it is a fun book with gorgeous illustrations.

[Juli Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining and informative! I especially appreciated all the attention to various citizen science efforts, and the broad range of US regions covered in these facts. My only reservation is that I wish there were more actionable items here, encouraging people to get outside and interact with nature, rather than only reading about it.

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book! Short, daily nuggets of information on a wide variety of nature related topics. Written with a sense of humor and accompanied by very cool illustrations. Good to read just before bed or as a bathroom reader.

[Alisa]

This book is pretty cool. Each day has a paragraph or two about a seasonally relevant thing in nature, and it includes tidbits of conservation history and events to participate in. The illustrations are nice too. Maybe if I lived in North America I would buy it.