Celebrate Get Outdoors Day on June 14th With The Delightful New Book, Forest Magic for Kids!

 

Friends, I have a very special book for you as we get ready to celebrate National Get Outdoors Day on June 14th.  This beautiful new children's book will encourage families to unplug and reconnect with the natural world. 

Forest Magic for Kids is a wonderful new book by author Susie Spikol and illustrated by Renia Metallinou. I love how they have mixed story, nature facts, and mindful activities that spark imagination while building a lifelong connection to the earth. 

It's the perfect book to take outside as readers slow down and enjoy the nature all around them.  I am so happy that my friends at @MediaMastersBks (IG) shared this one with me! 

This delightful outdoor handbook not only ignites curiosity and a passion for nature, it's also a great resource for nature units as well as hands-on activities to bring a creative writing program to life. -- School Library Journal. 

Your enchanted guide to 50+ magical activities for everything from finding hidden flower fairies in your own backyard and making a special wizard staff to creating a tiny woodland village and making your own forest potions.

Look inside to learn how to:

• Keep a secret notebook filled with maps, notes, and pockets for all your discoveries

• Go on a quest for wild treasures

• Follow a queen bumblebee to her castle

• Make your own forest teas and potions

• Become best friends with a tree

• Create tiny gnomes and build cozy gnome homes

• Seek where mushrooms grow after a fairy dance

• Carve a walking stick wizard staff

• Build your own hidden forest fort

Come discover the wild magic tucked into the nooks and crannies of forests, thickets, and meadows. 

Search for fairy dusted glow-in-the-dark mushrooms. 

Find secret worlds hidden in trees and uncover the tunnels, trails, and dens of gnomes and trolls, and mice and moles. 

Learn to listen to the forest, make sun-warmed pine tea, and wear an evergreen crown to an elf picnic.

The end pages filled with mushrooms is so much fun and...

...I love this sweet book trailer for Forest Magic For Kids too. 

You will find Susie Spikol at www.susiespikol.com and Forest Magic for Kids here. Susie is a naturalist at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, New Hampshire. A lifelong animal lover, Susie now helps people of all ages connect with the natural world. 

She is also the author of The Animal Adventurer’s Guide (Roost Books, 2002). 

I can't wait to share this with my community and neighborhood friends this summer.