Nature School: Lessons and Activities to Inspire Children''s Love for Everything Wild: Volume 1

About Laura StroupLauren GiordanoStephanie Hathaway

Lauren Giordano is an author illustrator and owner of Chickie & Roo an educational curriculum and resource company for families and schools. She home educates her two children in Florida and taught in her local homeschool co-op community where she led nature classes. Lauren is passionate about bringing children closer to nature and helping them develop a deeper understanding of our natural world. Her work has been featured in The Peaceful Press A Year of Learning Chickadees Wooden Toys Wild & Free Co. FunSchooling Books and more. You can find her work at chickieandroo.com. Stephanie Hathaway is a Kansas Cityarea artist who specializes in creating educational content inspired by our natural world. She believes in using beautiful dynamic illustrations to make learning about science and nature exciting and accessible to children of all ages. She is guided by the notion that many of lifes valuable lessons can be learned from nature. It is her hope that her work will inspire families to explore and learn from the natural world right outside their own door. You can see more of Stephanies educational nature-based studies and original artwork at stephaniehathawaydesigns.com. Laura Stroup is the founder of Firefly Nature School a nature study curriculum designed for homeschooling families co-ops and classrooms found online at fireflynatureschool.com. Laura has a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Ecology from Iowa State University with an emphasis in natural resource education. A former museum educator and upper school science teacher she now directs School of the Wild an immersive nature school that serves her local community. Laura resides in the countryside near Springfield Missouri with her family.