Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I love, love ,love this book. It is packed full of so much information all in one place. it really could take the place of several books.

The recommendation to get to know plants by drawing them and labeling them is brilliant, both for adults and children, to study them with a magnifying glass is also brilliant, a super way to bring you up close and personal with nature .
The calendar is easy to understand and very helpful.

The drawings are really nice and so detailed , although i knew a good few of the plants there was many i didn't know the names of. Having looked at the detailed sketches i clearly recognize them.

The info on each plant is outstanding, not only covering history, names in other countries, uses, how to identify, where to find and at what time of the year but also recipes for it, and some lovely ones at that.
I cant wait to try the several of them with the kids.
I like the categories it is split into, fruit,berry and flowers/wild herbs and weeds/fungi/onion, garlic and mustard/ trees and even coastal plants. This makes it a lot easier to find the information you need faster.

This is a must for walkers, anyone interested in foraging even slightly, anyone who spends time outdoors in nature as well as being used to forage with children.

All in all a brilliant book that i will certainly be buying copies of, for our family and as a wonderful gift.

I like how this is laid out, with charts and tables, but also with great illustrations beside descriptive text. The one thing I would change is labeling it a bit more geography-specific; I'm not sure that some of the 'common' grasses / herbs / etc are actually to be found in our southwest American zone, but that would be the only change I'd make. Would love to see one of these that is specific to our area! Nonetheless, there is still quite a bit that we can get out of the classroom and hunt for....like elderberry!