Living books for science...

[Marsha]

If you use living books for science, what do you use as a spine?

Do you have a list of books you choose from?


Thanks

[Trivium Academy]

I try to find a nonfiction book or curriculum I like for the spine and have the supplemental reading be the living books but this works best for us b/c we are still studying a particular subject at one time. Books like The Storybook of Science by Fabre could be a spine.

I just checked out a few books from the library that could all be used as spines for botany, Teaching the Trees was one of them and (http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=lLSQhYj_6vcC&dq=lessons+from+the+trees&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Jjexel9UAs&sig=wAKDw315YXMgX1Ekt-p-YR0cVQ0&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPP1,M1)

Look at a Flower by Anne O. Dowden (http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/13_1/CYE_BiographicalDowden.htm) (older wonderful book OOP, she was a botanist artist)
I have printed out Seed-Babies (http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=_60XAAAAIAAJ&dq=seed-babies+by+morley&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Un5E5s31NO&sig=mteRCegldIxfjNzz166J48WoIn0&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result) by M.W. Morley to read for botany as well.

For me, it's a treasure hunt for quality books which always ends well :D

[sagira]

Living Book Spine: Handbook of Nature Study

Another addition: Reader's Digest's North American Wildlife