Follow the family. Discover how raccoons communicate, explore, learn, and care for their young in a changing neighborhood.
Can You Read Nature? · Close to Home
Masked faces. Midnight mischief. Wonder is hiding in your neighborhood.
Follow curious kits, clever parents, quiet dens, and nighttime adventures through a nature book made for families who want to understand the wildlife nearby.
Ages 5–10+Junior AdventurerArt by Renee DeVault Bisco
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 own backyard
- Original art that makes animal science memorable
- $1 to Children and Nature Network
Ebook
The nature book you can take anywhere
$12.95instant download
- Your perfect neighborhood companion, see 10x more
- Kinder to the planet, nothing in a landfill
- Raccoon science shines on a screen
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Look closer
Every spread reveals a secret life nearby.
Look after dark. Follow tracks, food finds, dens, and the hidden activity that begins when the neighborhood gets quiet.
Meet the artist
Renee DeVault Bisco
Artist, storyteller, and careful observer of wild neighbors
“I wanted every page to make the familiar feel surprising again—and to help families look twice at the wildlife outside their door.”
As an artist and avid nature lover, working with Wild Stork on this book has been an absolute dream come true. I hope to inspire a curiosity and love for animals in all of my art, but this book especially I hope to inspire young people to take a second look at animals they may have traditionally overlooked.
I used to volunteer at a wildlife rehabilitation clinic and have rehabbed multiple different kinds of native animals, including raccoons. They are truly fascinating little creatures and they live so close to us! We even have a backyard raccoon that we pick up on our security cameras every now and then. I used him to inspire a couple of the images in this book.
For the images in this book I used watercolor pens, ink, and gel pens. This is a combination of mediums that I have used to create a body of work, inspired by nature, that I turned into a small business where I sell prints, stickers, bookmarks, notebooks, and other items.. You can visit me online at www.Renéeissance. Art or in person at pop up markets across the Kansas City area.
Renee’s illustrations invite families to replace fear with curiosity and discover the remarkable lives sharing their neighborhoods.
About this book
What is inside
Explore raccoon families, dens, tracks, food, communication, nighttime behavior, habitat, coexistence, conservation, and ten close-to-home discoveries.
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 raccoons home. Wear the wonder.
Pair the hardcover nature book with the matching Raccoons shirt for a gift that keeps backyard curiosity growing long after the final page.
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