Zookeeper Jack Hanna, Director Emeritus at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, saved hikers from a possible grizzly bear attack Saturday. See the video below as Jack Hanna is interviewed by ABC News’ Diane Sawyer.
Jack Hanna and his wife Suzi were hiking in Montana’s Glacier National Park in mid afternoon. As they came around a corner they [...]
Carl and Jean will be at the Traverse Bay Outdoor Art Fair this Saturday with their popular children’s movies, books, plush and nature and wildlife prints for sale.
The Traverse Bay Outdoor Art Festival is put on by the Artcenter Traverse City and held on the Northwestern Michigan College Campus in Traverse City, Michigan.
The Artcenter Traverse City [...]
Are you looking for the best board books for toddlers? We are fortunate that many of our customers feel we have some of the best board books on the market.
Below are some quotes from online reviews of our award-winning board book Find My Friends.
Customer Reviews
“Great book. Super photos of Midwest wild animals. Not too [...]
Here’s an interesting story about a black bear breaking into a car in Colorado and taking an unexpected joyride. I learned about this story in the BBC, “US bear takes short ride in car and leaves it wrecked“.
It seems the bear entered the car because it had a sandwich in the back seat. Once inside, [...]
President Barak Obama signed a new Executive Order establishing the National Ocean Council. This is good news in light of the disastrous, horrible BP oil spill.
This Executive Order establishes a new National Ocean Policy for the “stewardship of the ocean, our coasts, and Great Lakes, which sets our Nation on a path toward comprehensive planning for the preservation [...]
The “Discover the Forest” campaign includes a video featuring Miss America talking about the important role nature played in helping shape the person she is today. She links nature to helping children develop a conservation ethic.
A statistic that I find frightening in the video is that children in the United States spend 50% less time outdoors than [...]
Visit Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick at the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair 2010 this Wednesday, July 21 through Saturday, July 24. Purchase our New York Times best selling children’s picture books, award-winning movies and plush, along with our wildlife prints.
Visit Carl and Jean at booth 307 on Main Street. View map of [...]
Have you heard of “Bug Camp”? I hadn’t heard of Bug Camp either until I came across the term this morning on the Net.
Connecting kids with our natural world is critically important if people are going to continue to care about and be willing to stand up to protect nature. Bug Camp at the Rachel [...]
A mountain lion sighting in Greene County, Indiana, east of Bloomfield, has been confirmed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The determination was made from photographs taken by motion-sensitive cameras.
Who knew that mountain lions existed in Indiana? I think this is exciting news as we’ve had mountain lion sightings in Michigan also.
To me it [...]
If you are interested in learning how to take wildlife photos, Backpacker Magazine has a great article, “The Manual: How to Shoot Wildlife Photography”, that I found online. I often take my point and shoot Sony digital camera with me when I go hiking, but I rarely end up with any good photographs of wildlife.
This article [...]
