Read a sample expedition
Inside Hazel’s Field Atlas of America
Follow Hazel’s Colorado sample from the cover to the home-state chapter. Open the page exports to read the type, then compare the 82-page Atlas with the 98-page Flora + Fauna edition and separate Field Notebook.
Preview your child’s AtlasSample child: Hazel · Home state: Colorado. The cover shown here is the child-only version. You can also choose one grown-up.
- 82 pages
- 8.5 × 11 in hardcover
- 7 habitats
- 39 animals to meet
- 50 states
- Choose one home chapter
- Ages 6–12
- Read together, then explore
A sample you can read, page by page.
These flat Atlas spreads come from the sample print layouts. Use “Read this spread” to inspect the small type. Some pages below belong to the optional Flora + Fauna edition; those are labeled. The optional notebook is a separate softcover.
02 · The habitat opener
Read a little. Look a little longer.
Begin with the short expedition passage at the beaver pond. Find Hazel, follow a label to an animal, then use the field notes to choose something else to spot. This is one of seven habitat chapters.
Start at the beaver pond
A short story opens the habitat. Labels and a look-and-find list give your child somewhere to start looking.
Water is a habitat
Fresh surface waters, such as streams, rivers, ponds and lakes, provide habitat, a natural home, for many kinds of plants and animals.
Find the American beaver in the painting. Then look for the wood duck, river otter and green darner listed in the field notes.
Where would you begin looking?Reveal the answer
Start at the pond. Follow a label to an animal, then use the list to choose what to find next.
03 · The reference pages
Stay with one animal.
The reference pages keep their fixed layouts. Here, the painted black bear sits beside credited wildlife photographs and field-mark notes. Younger readers can find the labeled details with a grown-up; older readers can follow the longer text.
Study an American black bear
This species plate pairs the painting with two credited wildlife photographs. Labels point to the field marks your child can find.
They eat almost anything
Black bears will eat almost anything. They are omnivores, which means they eat both plants and animals.
A den for the winter
Black bears spend the winter months in dens to avoid the cold weather and the lack of available food.
Find where the dark coat meets the tan snout, then the curved claws.
Where does a black bear make its den?Reveal the answer
They make their dens in hollow trees or logs, under the roots of a tree or in rock crevices, which are narrow cracks in rock.
04 · The home-state chapter
Hazel’s expedition comes home to Colorado.
The six-page home-state chapter forms three spreads: a state map, a landscape and wildlife studies. Here is the map from the Colorado sample. Choose your child’s state for their edition.
The home-state chapter varies by edition and is outside the national-chapter expert review.
Read the Colorado chapter sample and try its activity →Explore all 50 home-state chapters →
05 · The optional Flora + Fauna edition
Look below the soil.
The 98-page Flora + Fauna Atlas adds 26 plants across 8 spreads to the 82-page Atlas. This milkweed spread belongs to that upgrade.
Follow a plant below the soil
The Flora + Fauna edition adds plant spreads. This one connects flowers, leaves, pods and the underground stem in one continuous illustration.
A stem underground
Common milkweed grows from a deep rhizome, a stem that runs underground.
Leaves in opposite pairs
Its broad, egg-shaped to oval leaves grow in opposite pairs.
Start at the flowers and follow the stem all the way down to the deep rhizome. The enlarged details help you examine small features; they are not to scale.
What is a rhizome?Reveal the answer
A stem that runs underground.
06 · The optional Field Notebook
A place for what they find next.
The separate 56-page softcover carries the child’s name and home state, with 23 pairs of observation logs and sketch pages. It is a place to write and draw, rather than extra reference pages inside the Atlas.
Notebook sold as an add-on. Table styling and other props are not included.
From this sample to their own book
Add your child’s name, a photo, a home state and your dedication. Choose the child alone or with Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa from a second photo. AI-painted likenesses appear on selected illustrated surfaces; the reference layouts stay fixed.
Preview their personalized cover and selected sample pages free, with no card. After payment, read every page and change the dedication before approving print.
Make it their kind of expedition
Choose their Atlas and field notebook.
Every Atlas includes their photo-based character, a chosen home-state chapter and your dedication. Add one supported grown-up at no extra cast charge.
Personalized Field Atlas
82-page hardcover · 39 animals
$69.99Choose this combination →Flora + Fauna Atlas
98-page hardcover · 39 animals + 26 plants
$84.99Choose this combination →Atlas + Field Notebook
82-page hardcover + separate 56-page softcover
$84.99Choose this combination →Flora + Fauna + Field Notebook
98-page hardcover + separate 56-page softcover
$99.99Choose this combination →Prices in USD. Free delivery to the contiguous US and Washington, DC. All 50 states are available as chapter choices. Boxes, ribbons, magnifiers and other styling props are not included.
Read the credits
Natural history with review behind it.
The following credits apply to the national natural-history chapters. The home-state chapter varies by edition and sits outside that review.
See the full review credits →- Reviewed in consultation with the American Museum of Natural History
- Reviewed in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation
- Bird accounts reviewed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Reviewers were paid for their time. Any errors that remain are ours.
Questions about the sample
Are these the pages from a real Atlas edition?
The flat Atlas spreads are exports of our Hazel sample print layouts. They let you read the actual pages. The notebook section includes styled product images and page samples; styling props are not included.
Will my child appear on every page?
Their illustrated character appears on the cover and selected expedition surfaces. Animal and plant reference pages keep their fixed layouts. Their chosen home-state chapter includes their name on its map page.
What changes when I choose another state?
The six-page home-state chapter becomes the chosen state’s map, landscape and wildlife chapter. The national habitat and animal chapters stay the same. All 50 states are available as chapter choices.
Can I read my own personalized edition before printing?
Preview the personalized cover and selected sample pages free. After payment, review every page and change the dedication before approving print. The Atlas does not use the picture-story editor.
See who turns up at the beaver pond.
The next cover can have their name on it.
Preview their Field Atlas