Their first expedition starts here
A personalized nature atlas with your child inside
The Field Atlas of America puts your child into an illustrated expedition through seven American habitats. Their character is painted from a photo, their name appears on the cover, and the last chapter is your home state. It is an 82-page hardcover for ages 6 to 12, with an optional grown-up beside them.
See their Field AtlasFrom $69.99 USD · Free contiguous US shipping
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- 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
Their face at the beaver pond. Their name on the map.
Add a photo of your child and choose any of the 50 states. They can explore alone or with Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa, illustrated from a second photo. Preview the personalized cover and selected sample pages free, with no card.
A book to return to as their reading grows
At about 6 to 8, read the short expedition passages together and find the labeled animals in the paintings. From about 8 to 12, they can explore the habitat and animal reference text themselves. There are 39 animals across the seven habitats, with additional wildlife in the home-state chapter.
Make the dedication yours
Add a message on the title page. After payment, review every page and change the dedication before approving print. The Atlas uses fixed natural-history pages with personalized illustrations on selected surfaces; its review flow differs from our editable picture-story books.
A face they know in a world to explore
That little explorer looks familiar.
Add a photo and preview the personalized cover and selected sample pages. Choose the child alone or with one grown-up from a second photo.
Shown: our Hazel sample. Selected expedition surfaces are personalized; reference pages keep their reviewed layouts.
Take a closer look inside
Open a habitat scene, then study one of its animals. Each view pairs the book’s pages with something to notice together.
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.
A different chapter for every home state
Choose from all 50 states. Its six-page home-state chapter brings together a map, a landscape and wildlife studies, with your child’s name on the map page.
Open selected pages from the chapter. Look at the places, read an animal account and follow the map.
Colorado, up close
- Landscape
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Animal study
- American beaver
- Inside your Atlas
- 6 pages · 3 spreads
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park covers 415 square miles.
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Rocky Mountain National Park
What makes it theirs
Their name and home
Their name on the cover, title page and state map. A home pin on the cover and their state on the title page.
Their painted likeness
Your child appears in the cover, title-page vignette and seven habitat openers, painted from their photo. Add one grown-up from a second photo.
Their state chapter
The map, featured landscape and animal studies change with the state you choose. Your dedication is printed on the title page.
All 50 home-state chapters are available to choose. Delivery is currently to the contiguous US and Washington, DC.
Read the Colorado chapter sample and try a reading activity →
Choose your AtlasInside the Flora + Fauna edition
Follow the flowers all the way below the soil.
The optional upgrade adds 26 plants on 8 extra spreads inside the same hardcover. Here is one of those spreads.
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.
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.
Before their expedition begins.
What is personalized in the Field Atlas?
Your child's name, photo-based illustrated character, chosen home state and dedication. You can include one grown-up from a separate photo. The cover and selected expedition scenes carry the personalized characters; the natural-history reference pages keep their reviewed layouts.
What can I preview for free?
Your personalized cover and selected sample pages. Add the photos and details first. No payment card is needed for the free preview.
Is the whole Atlas an AI-generated story?
The Atlas combines fixed natural-history layouts with AI-painted likenesses on selected illustrated surfaces. The habitat and animal reference text is part of the chosen Atlas. The home-state chapter varies with the state you select.
Where does the Atlas ship?
The Atlas currently ships to the contiguous United States and Washington, DC. Contact us about other destinations. A home-state chapter can be chosen for any of the 50 states; chapter selection and delivery coverage are separate.
Make room for a little explorer
They already know whose book this is.
A familiar face on the cover. Their state at the end. A whole expedition in between.
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