Edwin Way Teale

I have read nearly all of Edwin Way Teale’s books, and I have steadily collected them all over the years.  I absolutely love them and can recommend them – now my daughters read a couple of his books and enjoyed them as well when they were 16-17 and we read Circle of the Seasons as a read aloud for fun.  We are all nature lovers in our home, and love all the nature books we have read – if your daughter is not into nature at all, it may be harder to get the enthusiasm going – but I would try.  He writes beautifully and everything is so informative and interesting.  The girls read A Naturalist Buys a Farm, Springtime in Britain, Wandering Through Winter, North with the Spring, and Circle of the Seasons, they enjoyed them all. 

I would try them, they are older books obviously but he was a top notch naturalist and I think worth the effort.  Linda

Good choice Julie, because it was written in 1970, things have obviously changed in the time since then, however I have been to all the places he mentions in Springtime in Britain, and it was so nice to read about all the places I remember.  Because I was a young adult in 1970 I was traveling a lot around Britain at that time and he has done an excellent job in depicting my homeland.  I hope you enjoy it and also enjoy studying the history of England, we have a lot of it!  He really is one of my favorite authors.  I have also learned a tremendous amount about your beautiful country by reading his books and that is another reason I love reading his work so much.  Linda