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The Field Atlas comes home to Maryland

A personalized Maryland nature book for kids

A nature gift for a child who calls Maryland home. Their Field Atlas includes a six-page Maryland chapter after its seven American habitat chapters. Open selected sample spreads below to read the map, place notes and natural history.

Make their Maryland 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.

Two pages from Hazel’s Maryland chapter: detailed state relief map and painted place studies
The map spread from Hazel’s Maryland sample chapter. Your child’s name replaces the sample name.
Featured landscape in the chapter
Assateague Island National Seashore
Animal study in the chapter
Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
The printed home-state chapter
6 pages · one state per Atlas

From the Maryland sample · State map

Find your way around Maryland.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Assateague Island National Seashore lies on the edge of the continent, in a place recreated each day by ocean wind and waves.

Places in this map spread
  • Assateague Island National Seashore

From the Maryland sample · Landscape

Assateague Island National Seashore

Assateague Island National Seashore

Sandy beaches, salt marshes and coastal bays mark Assateague’s shoreline.

From the Maryland sample · Wildlife

Bald eagle

Bald eagle

On average, a nest is four to six feet across and three feet deep.

Try this with the sample

Compare shore settings

Read the Assateague note. Choose two shoreline settings it names and write one thing you would want to observe in each. Use the sample to separate what is pictured from what you are imagining.

  1. Open the landscape spread and read its note together.
  2. Use words or a sketch to record one detail. Point to the page or source that supports it.
  3. 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.

Hazel's source photo beside the open fresh water chapter, showing her painted likeness inside the atlas with a magnifier, fern and green pencil

From a sample to their own book

Their face in the expedition. Their own Maryland 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 Maryland chapter. National-chapter expert review does not extend to the varying home-state chapters.

Choose Maryland 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.

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 Maryland chapter.

Is the whole book about Maryland?

The 82-page Atlas explores seven American habitats and 39 animals, then reaches its final chapter: six pages about one chosen home state. Choose Maryland 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 Maryland 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.

Open another state chapter.

MassachusettsCape Cod National SeashoreRead the sample →MichiganPictured Rocks National LakeshoreRead the sample →MinnesotaVoyageurs National ParkRead the sample →
Browse all 50 home-state chapters →