The Nature Series includes eighteen books developed by Learning Magic, Inc. utilizing SoftTouch, Inc's My Own Bookshelf® technology. There are two bookshelves of nine books each that introduce children to nine widely different environments, i.e., northlands, the African savanna, the desert, the coral reef.

Each set of books includes high quality photographs and movies that bring the environments alive for the student. Prepare to see exciting close up views of the local animals!

One collection of books (marked with a yellow star) is written at a late first grade through mid second grade reading level. The second set of books (marked with a purple star) is written at a higher mid second grade through mid third grade reading level. The star markings let you tell the reading level at a glance.

The same photographs and movies appear within both sets of books. Only the amount and complexity of the text differs. Compare these two pages from the two books on the desert :

Bookshelves install directly into My Own Bookshelf®, where they will be available from the Read menu. You can choose one of these bookshelves and select some or all the books for a student to read. Books can also be assorted onto other bookshelves.

With the My Own Bookshelf® application, an educator or staff member can easily change or edit the existing text to meet their individual students' needs if that is desired. For tips on how to do this and for terms of use for revised versions, click here.

Alternatively, you can open individual books directly from The Nature Series CD using the included Readers.However, being able to choose their own books is an important component of My Own Bookshelf®, so we hope that you will take advantage of this technology and install the two bookshelves.

To keep track of which books a student has read, Learning Magic has created an 8.5" x 14" poster to print with all 18 books pictured in their places on the two bookshelves. Markers are also included so that a student could put a marker saying "I Read It!" on each book on the poster upon completion. Both these documents are included on the CD as PDF files. You can click to download the poster right here to see for yourself!

Sample Books To Download!

You can try out two of the stories by downloading from this site. Compare Tooie's Toucan Country, a Yellow Star level book, with The Northlands, one of the Purple Star level books. If you need the Readers, download them from the SoftTouch®-based Products page.