The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature's Clues (Natural Navigation) by Tristan GooleyWe all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, you can find Sirius due south in the night sky? And have you seen the poetic "shadow compasses" butterflies make on the hottest days, as they align their wings with the sun, their thin shadows pointing the way north?

The One-Straw Revolution is one of the founding documents of the alternative food movement

University of Pennsylvania Press

as well as being a judge of many other literature prizes

3 pages of paper patterns

on the Feast of Stephen

Combine the zany subject and madcap art technique cards and use them again and again

"Westerman captures the tone of the poem in a fittingly traditional way

-- The Nation

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is just as gripping and fantastical a read as it was a century and a half ago

the book looks and feels the part of a history textbook

Raspberry and Almond Crumble

Heinrich's passion for ravens has led him around the world in his research