The Field Atlas comes home to Illinois
A personalized Illinois nature book for kids
A nature gift for a child who calls Illinois home. Their Field Atlas includes a six-page Illinois chapter after its seven American habitat chapters. Open selected sample spreads below to read the map, place notes and natural history.
Make their Illinois Atlas →From $69.99 USD · Ages 6–12 · Free delivery to the contiguous US and Washington, DC. All 50 states are chapter choices; Alaska and Hawaii delivery is currently unavailable.
- Featured landscape in the chapter
- Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park
- Animal study in the chapter
- Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
- The printed home-state chapter
- 6 pages · one state per Atlas
From the Illinois sample · State map
Find your way around Illinois.
Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park
Illinois Beach is the only beach ridge shoreline left in the state, with dunes and swales, sprawling marshes and forests of oak.
- Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park
- Cache River State Natural Area
From the Illinois sample · Landscape
Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park
Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park
Marshes and oak forests are also part of the park.
From the Illinois sample · Wildlife
Monarch butterfly
Monarch butterfly
These vivid markings warn predators that the monarch is poisonous.
Try this with the sample
Choose a setting to draw
Find the featured Illinois Beach park in the map spread. Read the place note, choose one setting it names and sketch a detail you would look for there. Keep your imagined detail separate from what the sample actually shows.
- Open the state map spread and read its note together.
- Use words or a sketch to record one detail. Point to the page or source that supports it.
- Write one question you still have. On a later outing with a grown-up, record what you actually notice, even if it differs from the book.
A reading activity created for this webpage. The chapter’s featured place and animal are separate subjects; this sample is not a promise of a wildlife sighting or a guide to a particular trail.
From a sample to their own book
Their face in the expedition. Their own Illinois chapter.
Add your child’s photo, name and dedication. Choose the child alone or with Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa from a second photo. Their likeness appears on the cover and selected expedition surfaces; the reference pages keep their fixed layouts.
Preview the cover, title page and first habitat free. After payment, review every page and change the dedication before approving print. The Atlas uses its own review flow.
The personalization proof shown is our Hazel sample. The state previews above show the Illinois chapter. National-chapter expert review does not extend to the varying home-state chapters.
Choose Illinois for their Atlas →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.
Before you choose their Illinois chapter.
Is the whole book about Illinois?
The 82-page Atlas explores seven American habitats and 39 animals, then reaches its final chapter: six pages about one chosen home state. Choose Illinois for that chapter. Index, sources and colophon pages follow it. One book does not include a separate chapter for every state.
What can I read on this page?
Selected spreads from Hazel’s Illinois sample chapter, with the source-linked notes already published in our Atlas explorer. Use “Read this spread” to inspect the small type. The whole finished book is available to review after payment.
Can this be a gift for a child living in another state?
Yes. You choose the chapter; the delivery address is separate. The Atlas currently ships to the contiguous United States and Washington, DC. You can choose an Alaska or Hawaii chapter for delivery within that area.
Does the notebook come with the Atlas?
The 56-page Field Notebook is a separate optional softcover for sightings and sketches, personalized with the child’s name and home state. The Flora + Fauna edition adds 26 plants inside the Atlas. Choose either upgrade, both or neither in the options above.