“When Snowflakes Fall is a quality board book, the kind you’ll want in your book basket now as well as when the grandbabies begin to visit.” These kind words are from the review of our new board book, When Snow Flakes Fall, in The Old Schoolhouse magazine. We want to thank the reviewers at The Old Schoolhouse magazine [...]
If you are taking your kids to a national park, I encourage you to get them involved with the Junior Ranger program. Many National Parks offer visitors the opportunity to join the National Park Service Family as Junior Rangers. Interested students complete a series of activities during their park visit, share their answers with a [...]
Children and nature should go together. That’s what we work to encourage everyday with our children’s books and movies. To encourage tweens (ages 8-12) to spend more time in nature, the U.S. Forest Service is joining the Ad Council, launching an interactive photo/art sweepstakes. The photo sweepstakes encourages tweens to head into the forest, explore [...]
Michael Glenn Monroe is a good friend of ours at Carl R. Sams II Photography. An award winning wildlife artist, he illustrates children’s books and speaks to children nationwide about wildlife, conservation and never giving up on your dreams. Michael’s book A Wish to be a Christmas Tree is a holiday favorite. It’s been read [...]
National Wildlife Refuge Week is October 12-18, 2009. The purpose is to celebrate the 550 units that make up our National Wildlife Refuge System. The Mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife, and [...]
As we announced in a previous post, we are working with award-winning filmmakers Robert Sams and Laura Sams on the movie for our third book in the series, First Snow in the Woods. We need your help to figure out where to film our main character – a scarecrow that will be visited by a crow [...]
Ahoy mateys! Arrrrrrrrr you ready to think like a pirate and win some loot? International Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19. In honor of such a fun-filled day, Sisbro Studios has created a pirate-themed contest based on our book A Pirate’s Quest and the “The Peg Leg Song”! Do you like eating? Writing? [...]
A humming bird is one of the wildlife creatures featured in our new board book, When Snowflakes Fall, so I was interested to read about hummingbird moths. Hummingbird moths are a type of sphinx moth that people often mistake for baby hummingbirds, according to the article, “Get Into Nature: The truth about ‘baby hummingbirds’“, in [...]
Children and nature used to blend well together when kids had forests and fields nearby to explore. In “Hitting the Great Outdoors” in The New York Times, Nicolas Kristof writes that young people suffer from “nature deficit disorder,” and that environmentalism needs to be focused not only on preserving nature but also on getting people into [...]
Children and nature. They should go together. According to the blog post, “Children Need Nature“, Charlotte Mason built a great deal of her philosophy of education on the idea that children needed to be outdoors with nature. The article goes on to say some of the best lessons we have had are the ones that [...]
