"What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage...

Three friends set out on a day hike to explore their local forest, intending to climb to the top of the hill, where they will plant a flag, read a poem, and release feathers into the wind.

"A poetic look at the interconnectedness of Earth, nature, and its many creatures"--

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text highlight the animals, fruits, feelings, and colors that characterize each season of the year.

In a busy, noisy town where everyone is always rushing about, there is a little girl named Willow. She sees the things that everyone is too distracted to notice-including a little bird who leads her to a tiny door in an old tree. When she steps through the fairy door, she enters a magical Wild Wood where everything has its time and place, and meets tiny fairies who nourish the earth, and turn the seasons. The fairies show Willow the joy of living...

Told in rhyming text, the story takes us through a child's day, focusing on the animals and objects around the child.

When Grandfather calls Miyuki to bed, she persuades him to help prepare for a visit from the Dragonfly Queen, cover the cat, and more before she is finally ready to sleep. Like children everywhere, Miyuki's imagination peaks at bedtime, when she remembers all the things she has to do before she can possibly go to bed: she needs to water the vegetables, gather snails, and prepare for the arrival of the Dragonfly Queen. Her patient grandfather follows...

Identifies some of the things happening in nature while one goes about an ordinary day, such as a shark circling a reef while one brushes one's teeth, or puffins eating fresh-caught fish while one eats dinner.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text encourage the reader to look for different shapes in the world around us.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text encourage the reader to be still, peaceful, and calm inside while imagining using all five senses to experience nature.