The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children bright Backwoods Home

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Enter an enchanting world of fauna and flora with master illustrator and designer Clare Therese Gray

As the little fairy looks for somewhere warm to stay

the sleepy Slippery Jacks

The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children bright Backwoods HomeFirst published a half century ago, Rachel Carson's award winning The Sense of Wonder remains the classic guide to introducing children to the marvels of nature. In 1955, acclaimed conservationist Rachel Carson author of Silent Spring began work on an essay that she would come to consider one of her life's most important projects. Her grandnephew, Roger Christie, had visited Carson that summer at her cottage in Maine, and together they had wandered