By Erin Alladin & Miki Sato
If you go walking, / You might collect berries, / Or pebbles, / Or wildflowers. / I collect questions.
Time spent in the outdoors 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.
Praise for If You Go Walking
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“Illustrator Miki Sato has used a variety of different textures and materials so that a reader feels they are looking outside at what is truly happening in the real world.”—Puget Sound Council for Reviewing Children’s and Young Adult Literature
“This book multitasks as both a charming read-aloud and an empowering jumping off point for real science for young thinkers.”—Youth Services Book Review
“I love the way it encourages readers to ask questions based on what they observe and the illustrations on this one are an absolutely amazing.” —Picturebook Playdate IG
“The collage illustration style is especially effective, and I loved how fabric was used for clothing and real feathers make the birds look delightfully fluffy!”—YA Books Central
“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
