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Enjoying Chicago Wilderness with Your Family: An Activity Guide

Edited by Judy Pollock, National Audubon Society
Original collages and design by Liita Forsyth, Wintertree Design

This richly illustrated, full-color book is packed with kid-tested activities you can do throughout the year. In fact, each activity is coded for appropriate seasons. There are backyard and neighborhood activities like Raising Monarch Butterflies and making Insect Traps. You'll want to take a nature expedition for activities like Casting Tracks and a Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt. Adaptable for children from preschool through high school, this book will be most enjoyed when parents act as nature guides for their children.

Enjoying Chicago Wilderness with Your Family: An Activity Guide (2000) is a publication of Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Inc. Paperback, 60 pages, $4.95. ISBN 0-9700475-0-9.

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Anderson's Bookstores (Downers Grove, Elmhurst, and Naperville)

Barbara's Bookstores (Chicago locations and Oak Park)

Book Bin, Northbrook

Book Stall, Winnetka

Border's Books (most but not all Border's locations)

Brookfield Zoo Gift Shop, Brookfield

Chicago Botanical Garden Gift Shop, Glencoe

Chicagoland Canoe Base, Chicago

Childrens Museum Store, Chicago - Navy Pier

Crocodile Pie, Libertyville

Emily Oaks Nature Center, Skokie

Farmside Grocery, Long Grove

Forest Preserves of DuPage County, Wheaton

Hinsdale News Agency, Hinsdale

Just the Bookstore, Glen Ellyn

Lake Katherine Nature Preserve, Palos Heights

Magic Tree, Oak Park

Morton Arboretum, Lisle

The Natural Garden, St. Charles

Prairie Avenue Bookstore, Chicago

Spring Valley Nature Center, Schaumburg

Town House Books & Cafe, St. Charles

Wild Bird Center (Wheaton and Fox River Grove)

Wild Birds Unlimited, Lisle

Willowbrook Wildlife Center, Glen Ellyn

Women & Children First, Chicago