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The Field Atlas comes home to Michigan

A personalized Michigan nature book for kids

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

Make their Michigan 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 Michigan chapter: detailed state relief map and painted place studies
The map spread from Hazel’s Michigan sample chapter. Your child’s name replaces the sample name.
Featured landscape in the chapter
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Animal study in the chapter
Sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis)
The printed home-state chapter
6 pages · one state per Atlas

From the Michigan sample · State map

Find your way around Michigan.

Isle Royale National Park

Isle Royale National Park is a rugged, isolated island, and visitors cross Lake Superior to reach it.

Places in this map spread
  • Isle Royale National Park
  • Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
  • Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

From the Michigan sample · Landscape

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Lake Superior shapes the shoreline at Pictured Rocks and affects the living communities farther inland as well.

From the Michigan sample · Wildlife

Sandhill crane

Sandhill crane

Sandhill cranes are the tallest birds found at Sleeping Bear Dunes, reaching heights of over 4 feet.

Try this with the sample

Ask about the lake

Read the Lake Superior note. Write one question about the shoreline and another about the living things farther inland. Which question could the painting help answer, and which needs more reading?

  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 Michigan 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 Michigan chapter. National-chapter expert review does not extend to the varying home-state chapters.

Choose Michigan 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 Michigan chapter.

Is the whole book about Michigan?

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

MinnesotaVoyageurs National ParkRead the sample →MississippiGulf Islands National SeashoreRead the sample →MissouriOzark National Scenic RiverwaysRead the sample →
Browse all 50 home-state chapters →