Welcome to Day 3 of Five Fall Favorites, hosted by Kate at Once Upon an Ordinary and Katja at Little Blossoms for Jesus! If you have missed my previous posts, find them here and here! Today’s prompt is a fun one: nature!
NOTE: All cover images link to the books’ Goodreads pages.
1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
When I think about books with the theme of nature, The Secret Garden is definitely one of the first to come to mind! While I didn’t enjoy this one as much as Burnett’s A Little Princess, it was still a very enjoyable story. The setting and the writing style are beautiful, and it was neat reading about Mary and Collin and how the garden helped them overcome their problems and build their friendship. (Just a note, there is some talk of “Magic” throughout the book)
2. The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
This is a very interesting book! It is the actual journal of Edith Holden, a naturalist from England during the 1900s. There are lots of beautiful drawings throughout the book of the nature she found in the English countryside along with notes that she wrote about her findings and collections of poems and quotes about nature. Read my review of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady here.
3. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
A Girl of the Limberlost is a coming-of-age story about Elnora Comstock, a girl growing up near the Limberlost Swamp in Indiana (fun fact: I actually read this book for a college nature writing class and gave a presentation about it to my class!). There is quite a lot about nature in this story as Elnora gets a job collecting butterflies from the swamp. The descriptions in the story are really good and help you really picture what the Limberlost Swamp (which sadly hardly exists now) looked like in the early 1900s. There is more to the story than the nature, though, such as Elnora adjusting to going to high school in town then starting college and a romance plot. This book is technically the sequel to Freckles, but it can be read as a stand-alone (which is what I did, though I would like to go back and read Freckles sometime).
4. The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Keeper of the Bees, also by Gene Stratton-Porter, focuses more on the healing power of nature. The main character is a World War 1 veteran who is seeking healing from injuries, mental and physical, which he finds through taking on the job of beekeeper for an old man whose health is failing and through friendships with a child known as The Little Scout and his neighbor Margaret Cameron. There is also a romance towards the end of the story. There are lots of beautiful nature descriptions and interesting information about beekeeping. Read my review of The Keeper of the Bees here.
5. Capture the Moment by Suzanne Woods Fisher
The first book in the National Parks Summers series, Capture the Moment is a sweet romance with a beautiful setting and some intriguing mystery. The book is set in Grand Teton National Park and centers around Kate, a wildlife photographer aspiring to get a picture in National Geographic, trying to photograph Grizzly 399. There are a lot of interesting facts about the park and Grizzly 399 (who was a real bear but has sadly passed away now). Read my review of Capture the Moment here.
I hope you enjoyed reading about my 5 nature book recommendations! If you need more books to add to your TBR (or even if you don’t ;)), check out the posts from the rest of Team Squirrel!
Stephanie @ Books Less Travelled
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