If you go walking, / You might collect berries, / Or pebbles, / Or wildflowers. / I collect questions.

Time spent in the outdoors during Fall and Winter stirs a child's curiosity. In If You Go Walking, a thoughtful thread of questions (How do seeds know not to grow until spring?) invites young readers to explore the world around them with wonder. In nature, questions are everywhere, and answers can be too, if you know the right places to look.

Author Erin Alladin invites young readers to think deeply in this lyrical nonfiction text, celebrating children's curiosity about the world around them. Illustrator Miki Sato's textural collage art recreates the wonder of the outdoors in paper, felt, and embroidery silk, creating masterpieces that invite readers to look again and again.

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About the Author
Erin Alladin is an author and freelance editor who has always resisted choosing between her passions for ecology and literacy. During her decade working in children's book publishing, she spent her free hours running a Toronto community permaculture garden. After moving back to her home region of Northern Ontario she co-founded the gardening podcast Plants Always Win. Erin's nonfiction picture books, Wait Like a Seed and the celebrated Outside, You Notice, praise the natural world and kids' innate ability to learn from it. When Erin isn't taking long walks in nature, she can be found growing vegetables and editing books in a little house near Parry Sound with her wife, a forest full of birds, and (still) not enough bookshelves. Miki Sato is a Japanese-Canadian illustrator who uses a variety of different textures and materials to create three-dimensional images. Originally from Ottawa, she moved to Toronto to complete her degree in illustration from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Miki has received many honors for her picture books: her book Snow Days was a finalist for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award, Sunny Days was a 2021 CBC Books Best Book, Windy Days won a Northern Lights Book Award, and While You Sleep was shortlisted for the Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year. Her most recent book is Chidori.

Reviews

Praise for If You Go Walking

"A heartfelt paean to proto-scientists and everything left in this world for them to discover."-Kirkus Reviews

"It's a nice lyrical way of telling these stories.... and it's loaded with lots of good STEM content"-Fuse 8, Betsy Bird

"Leaping visually across seasons from spring to the end of a snowy winter, it's a thoughtful tribute to the power of observation." -Publishers Weekly

Book Information
ISBN 9781772783513
Author Erin Alladin
Format Hardback
Page Count 32
Imprint Pajama Press
Publisher Pajama Press