The Animal Adventurer's Guide How to Prowl for an Owl, Make Snail Slime, and Catch a Frog Bare-Handed--50 Acti vities to Get Wild with Animals

Calling all animal lovers! 50 hands-on activities and adventures that bring you closer to wild animals than you’ve ever been.

Have you ever followed animal tracks in the mud or chased after the glowing trail of a firefly in the night sky? Want to know how to hold a snake, feed a bird from your hat, and help salamanders cross the road? If so, you’re not just an animal lover—you’re an animal adventurer, and this is the book for you. It’s packed full of hands-on activities and projects that bring you closer to wild animals than ever before—from feathery birds and furry mammals to slippery herps, crawly arthropods, and other intriguing invertebrates. You’ll get insider tips about tools and techniques of the trade, become a citizen scientist, and then record handy field notes about all your amazing animal discoveries.
 
Look inside to learn how to:

Track wild animals any time of year 

Use a flashlight for night vision to spy on nocturnal animals

Start your very own animal scat collection and impress your friends

Build a wildlife blind and become invisible to animals around you

Collect things like snakeskins, fossils, and feathers

Keep a wild guide to your own backyard

And so much more!

 

SUSIE SPIKOL is a naturalist at the Harris Center for Conservation Education (www.harriscenter.org) in Hancock, NH. For over 30 years she has been helping people of all ages make positive and sustainable connections to the environment. When not catching frogs with preschoolers, tracking bobcats with middle-schoolers, or hawk-watching with her own three children, Susie spends her time writing about the natural world. 

BECCA HALL is an illustrator based in the Lake District, England. Her work appears across the United Kingdom on stationery and giftware, and in children's books.