E-Product Review: NaturExplorers Books by Shining Dawn Books

When you open a NaturExplorers e-book from Shining Dawn books, you immediately notice the beautiful colors and neatly designed text.  Neat text is essential to a good e-book – who wants to scroll through pages of hard-to-read information?  Nevertheless, after scrolling for a few minutes and getting a glimpse of the first few notebooking pages included in this book, I printed the whole thing and put it into a notebook.  I knew it was good enough that I would want a printed copy.

 Thankfully, these e-books are packaged nicely in a single pdf format, so that I can quickly and easily print extra copies of the notebooking pages as I want them.  Easy access to printable pages is another important feature of an e-book.  {I have opened an e-book before and found it divided into sections with just two or three pages in each section.  This makes it so difficult to find what you need quickly! }

Next, I noticed the ideas for younger students.  This is so important in my home, because I have little ones who demand to do everything their older brothers and sisters are doing.  This is wonderful – because they are learning so much at a very young age, but also difficult – because it is frustrating to always have to come up with ideas at their level on my own.  Here are just a few of the ideas for younger students included in the Beautiful Birds e-book I received.

The hands-on activities included in the NaturExplorer books attracted both myself and my children almost immediately. Hands-On is so important for elementary-aged children and what child wouldn’t want to make bird-food crusted bagel? Here are some examples of hands-on activities I found in Incredible Creeks.

Curiously, I was scanning through the books and was drawn to different parts of the book completely out of order. During the main part of the book you will also find lots of informational material like this:

And also book suggestions, ideas for including older students, fun activities for outside study, writing activities, references for Bible study, artist and composer studies, poetry tie-ins, internet links, and extra book lists.  That’s a whole lot of material!

The NaturExplorer e-books range in price from $4 – $8.95. The Beautiful Birds book is 61 pages in length and costs $8.95 individually. However, I highly recommend the three and five pack bundles which reduce the cost of the books. They also have a monthly $6 special, so right now you can purchase Captivating Clouds for just $6.

My Bottom Line:  Frankly, I was delightfully impressed with NaturExplorers books I received.  It is not very often I am exposed to a new publisher in the homeschool market these days, but somehow these beautiful nature studies have completely missed my radar in the past.   These are definitely books we will turn to again and again for nature study.

The Giveaway: One very lucky reader is going get to pick a bundle.  That’s right – the winner gets to pick any bundled set they want. The required comment entry is:  Visit the Shining Dawn Books website and tell me  which NatureExplorers bundle you would like to win.  If you do not answer this question in a comment on this blog post, you will not officially be entered and no further entries will count.   To post your comment, scroll all the way down to the bottom of this post and find the comment box.  Type your answer to the above question and follow the steps to post your comment.  You will then need to scroll back up to the Rafflecopter form and click enter for the first entry.  This will open up further entry opportunities for you.  Good Luck!

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Disclaimer: I received four NaturExplorer books from Shining Dawn Books at no cost to me in exchange for an honest review on my blog. Here you have it.