Follow the water. Trace glacial rivers from snowy peaks through evergreen forests, meadows, and valleys shaped by ice and time.
Can You Read Nature? · National Parks
Glacial rivers. Wild neighbors. Wonder is waiting in every valley.
Follow mountain goats, bald eagles, alpine lakes, and ancient forests through a nature book made for curious families in North Cascades National Park.
Ages 5–14+Family nature bookArt by Kelly Liedtke
Read before you go see ten times more!
Hardcover
The keepsake nature book for curious explorers
$29.95hardcover
- The perfect gift for curious kids
- A nature book for your next mountain adventure
- Original art that makes wild science memorable
- $1 to Children and Nature Network
Ebook
The nature book you can take anywhere
$9.95instant download
- Your perfect park companion, see 10x more
- Kinder to the planet, nothing in a landfill
- Mountain science shines on a screen
- $1 to Children and Nature Network
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Look closer
Every spread brings the Cascades into view.
Meet the mountain neighbors. Look for mountain goats, eagles, marmots, and tiny forest wonders living among the peaks and lakes.
Meet the artist
Kelly Liedtke
Artist, storyteller, and lover of wild places
“I wanted each page to feel like stepping into the Cascades, where water, wildlife, and wonder meet.”
An award winning national and internationally recognized pen and ink artist, with a day job...
Art has always been there. I discovered ink and pointillism at about the same time in high school, and I was hooked! Working with ink is both forgiving and very very not forgiving at the same time. I fell in love with the challenge as well as the journey each drawing takes you on. Sometimes it’s fast and crazy and other times it’s simple and easy. I love the way the ink’s own energy and mine work into the final piece, just like how it should be. It is important that you understand this haunts me and keeps me awake. Even when I’m busy with the other passions and responsibilities in my life, the drawings are working in my head, and waiting for their moment. I have told many people, even though the drawings take time 15-45 hours, the real struggle is in the planning. That can take months or years.
I am heavily involved in my community’s art programs. I work as the vice president in a cooperative gallery, as an active guest artist at another and I’m on the show committee for a local art club. I love participating in juried shows, new people, new galleries and spaces and sharing my skills and drawings with people who might not have seen pen and ink expressed in this way before. I have had the pleasure of showing my art all across the United States and had the honor of seeing my drawings published in magazines in Canada, U.S. and Europe. I have made many friends and learned so much while traveling to juried shows in the U.S and Europe. This journey that I am on, is an amazing gift and I hope the ordinary miracles that fascinate me can captivate you and the members of your world.
Kelly’s illustrations invite families to slow down, look closer, and care for the wild landscapes they discover.
About this book
What is inside
Explore North Cascades’ glacial rivers, alpine lakes, mountain goats, eagles, wildflowers, changing seasons, conservation, and ten must-see experiences.
About the author
Narrated by Neil Rosen, children’s book author and founder of WildStork. Neil writes every book as an invitation to look closer, stay longer, and discover what families miss when they move too fast.
Reading level
Ages 5 to 14. Designed for the whole family, with lyrical storytelling and real science to share together.
Wear the wonder
Bring the Rockies home. Wear the adventure.
Pair the hardcover nature book with the matching North Cascades shirt for a gift that keeps the mountains close long after the final page.
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