What a wonderful story idea with two young girls, who happen to be from differing cultural backgrounds, come together to explore the forest through the lense of a young scientist. Our book even pictures and lists the items they take with them, such as: compass, binoculars and trowels. The young scientist have a magnificent collection of butterflies, leaves, beattles, seeds, ect.

There is some patterning in the story as the young protagonists find items which are too BIG, too DEEP, tooHIGH, to reach. But they never give up and move onto what is left to discover. Until, they get chased by a bear. (This is the only part of the story that I would make a change as my personal experiences leaves to to believe most bears are harmless and the less we fear them the more we will protect them). Luckily, the girls returned unharmed but worried they had failed their mission. Until, they look back at their journals and realize they had catalogued a rare bird species, mapped the forest and watched baby birds hatch. A lovely book of discovery!