Review: Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature’s Footprints

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Artist and naturalist, Jim Arnosky, has written an inviting book for young naturalists entitled, Wild Tracks: a Guide to Nature’s Footprints. This informative picture book focuses on the tracks that animals leave behind that reveal their identity, what they were doing, how big they were, how fresh the tracks are and more.

Each featured animal includes a giant fold-out page with detailed illustrations of life sized paws, claws and hoof-prints! You and your children will never look at footprints the same way again!

Did you know:
…that you can tell if a deer or bear is running or walking by it’s footprints?
…the easiest canine tracks to identify are the fox tracks?
…that feet aren’t the only things that leave tell tale tracks behind?

This is a wonderful book to either encourage a love of nature, or to start one.

Jim Arnosky is an artist and naturalist who has been honored for his overall contribution to literature for children by receiving the first lifetime achievement award for Excellence in Science and many of his books have been chosen as ALA Notable books. Wild Tracks! is his 100th book for children.

Karin Katherine is a proud stay-at-home mother of four. As the 7th of 8 children, Karin feels blessed by her average size (in her mind anyway) family and wouldn’t mind a few more – God willing and her husband notwithstanding. Her biggest homeschooling dream is to one day homeschool across the United States in an RV. Please visit her blog Passport Academy.