Celebrate National Wildlife Week March 15-21 and get children outside. The National Wildlife Federation offers a number of outdoor activities for children. If you are a teacher, look over our Lost in the Wood and Stranger in the Woods Curriculum Guides. Each guide contains 54 fun-filled activity pages plus 12 additional “project cards” with great ideas for [...]
Laura Sams and Robert Sams, authors of our book A Pirate’s Quest, and directors of our DVD movie The Riddle in a Bottle, enjoy sharing their talents through author visits and live performances each year. You can watch their wonderful presentation in Dubai in the video above. They have performed at the Smithsonian Museum of [...]
KIDS FIRST! announced its Best of the Year Awards, and our underwater film The Riddle in a Bottle won the Best Educational Film for Ages 5 to 12. KIDS FIRST! is the world’s largest film festival, run by the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media, a national, nonprofit organization that evaluates, rates and endorses children’s feature films, DVDs, [...]
Author Bridget Llewellyn will be in Traverse City, Michigan this weekend signing copies of One Child, One Planet. This new children’s book is a beautiful collaboration between Llewellyn and award-winning wildlife photographers and authors Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick. “It was an absolute privilege to work with award-winning wildlife photographers, Carl R. Sams [...]
The children’s picture book One Child, One Planet is here! It’s beautiful. It’s educational. “One Child, One Planet is a lovely and compelling book for kids. It balances critical environmental information with the gentle reassurance that children need as they become aware of the world around them,” says Lana Pollack, former Michigan state senator. Order [...]
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 [...]
From the Sisbro Blog, Laura Sams writes that in their next episode of The Riddle Solvers, they find an ancient journal with a riddle about shark teeth. She is blown away by how tiny the whale shark teeth are, and how the biggest fish in the ocean has such tiny teeth. Learn more
As promised in my recent blog post, above is the cover (proof, not final) for the new book, One Child, One Planet: Inspiration for the Young Conservationist. This book is a beautiful collaboration between author Bridget Llewellyn and award-winning wildlife photographers and authors Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick. One Child, One Planet provides environmental [...]
One Child, One Planet: Inspiration for the Young Conservationist, is a new children’s book coming this fall. A beautiful collaboration between author Bridget Llewellyn and award-winning wildlife photographers and authors Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick. Breathtaking images and charming prose sure to inspire children – and their parents too! “Earth so big, and [...]
In his article, “A Shot Against Nature Deficit Disorder“, in the San Francisco Chronicle, writer Dan Shapely, discusses Bill Thompson III’s bird watching guide, The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America. Mr. Shapely says Thompson is trying to inspire children to go outside, pick up his book, and put down their iPods, Wii [...]
