Book excerpt: This journal has been created for kids, to encourage slow living, engaging with nature and skills in observation. The journal has 4 single sided pages for each nature walk, including a recording of conditions for the day, a list of things the kids would like to observe, 2 pages set aside for sketches, colourings or photographs, final page listing what the senses of sight, hearing, smelling and feeling encountered. The notebook has enough pages for 25 nature-based encounters, so there are plenty of opportunities for growth and learning. The journal is a great book for use in home education, for recording a natural environment, for forest school and for children to use as a starting point for creating sketchbook nature journals. **Please note that fiber-tipped pens and markers as well as watercolour paints may bleed through to the following pages, so this journal is created as a single-sided unit, with the back of each page purposefully grey to allow for different writing instruments to be used.