Little ones will love the creatures of nature while learning how they use their special colors to hide in the board book Find My Friends. This book is a Midwest Independent Publishers Association Honorable Mention Award Winner.

Board books about animals start your toddler off on the right track by connecting them with wildlife at a young age. Perfect for spring is our very popular board book for toddlers, Find My Friends.

“I’m waiting for my mother,” whispered the fawn.

Toddlers love this book and yours will too! Order Find My Friends.

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Find My Friends teaches toddlers how creatures of nature use their special colors to hide.

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 big to keep toddlers’ attention. Good heavy cardboard pages for toddlers.”

“Short, sweet and adorable.”

“Wonderful ‘real’ pictures of the animals for a baby to see and learn.”

Our board books for kids include Find My Friends, When Snowflakes Fall, and Winter Friends.

Benefits of Board Books
Toddlers have short attention spans and are very lively. Board books with few words and pictures are a perfect way to engage them and it’s easy for the toddler to understand the story.

Board books are inexpensive (ours are just $7.95 each) and sturdy. They fit in a toddler’s tiny hands and make it easy for the child to turn the pages without tearing them.

Find My Friends is a Midwest Independent Publishers Association Honorable Mention Award Winner. Learn more about Find My Friends, or view all three of our board books for toddlers (scroll down to third row of books once on page).

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Huron Valley School Board Member Lindsay Cotter, and Kirt Manecke from Carl R. Sams II Photography, hold up the books being donated to help kids read. Photo by Carl R. Sams II

In keeping with their tradition of helping kids read during March is Reading Month, Carl and Jean donated 185 of their Find My Friends board books to the Head Start program at Huron Valley Schools Apollo Center near Milford, Michigan.

Carl and Jean are also donating their award winning In the Woods series (Lost in the Woods, Stranger in the Woods, First Snow in the Woods) of children’s picture books to the teachers at Apollo Center so they can read to the children and teach them gentle lessons of nature.

Huron Valley School Board member and Milford resident Lindsay Cotter collected and delivered the books. Lindsay said, “They are putting the books in the hands of the children that need them the most. Reading is the key to their future. The kids are so excited!”

We want to thank Lindsay Cotter for helping us make this happen and for delivering the books.

Created in 1965, Head Start is the most successful, longest-running, national school readiness program in the United States. Nearly 25 million pre-school aged children have benefited from Head Start. Learn more about Head Start.

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Thousands of fawns lost each year when people take them from the woods

To keep safe, fawns often hide and sleep in the spring, but they are rarely lost. Photo by Carl R. Sams II

There’s nothing quite as refreshing as a hike in the woods in spring.

If you’re lucky, you may spot a newborn fawn camouflaged in the leaves.

Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick, authors of the children’s book Lost in the Woods, remind hikers, however, that while a fawn found alone in the woods may seem vulnerable, they are rarely lost.

Sams and Stoick explain that well-meaning people often think they’re saving a fawn when they find them alone and take them home to try to care for them.

In truth, mother doe is likely very nearby, letting nature protect her fawn with spots to camouflage him and a scentlessness that keeps him safe.

More tomorrow.

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Kids outdoors: Children are natural scientists

Getting children outside in nature offers lifetime benefits. Photo by Carl R. Sams II

Children are natural scientists, according to an article I discovered online.

When kids get outdoors in nature, they are questioning, comparing and observing, all things that improve brain development.  

The “Our Day Outside” event at Placer Nature Center in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills sounds wonderful.

It could be a program replicated across out nation. 

Read the article.

Our kid’s books and movies teach children gentle lessons of nature. They encourage children to get outdoors and explore nature. 

What are you doing to get your children outdoors?

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Fawns hide alone in the spring

It’s that time of year again. Soon you may spot fawns alone in the woods.

If you find a fawn alone in the woods, leave it be. In most cases, it’s not lost. Learn what to do if you find a fawn.

Have you ever found a fawn alone in the woods?

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