Books make great holiday gifts.  Support small businesses by purchasing your books at your local bookstore like Reads & Company in Phoenixville and Wellington Square Books in Exton.  Order them online from Bookshop.org.

Here are our nature-themed winter selections.  You can find more information about these books on our New and Noteworthy book page.

Adults

  • An Inconvenience of Penguins: Epic Voyages in Pursuit of the World’s Most Beloved Bird by Jamie Lafferty
  • The Biggest Year in American Birding: A Quest to Find 900 Birds in the USA and Its Territories by Nicholas Komar and Richard Wilks Taylor
  • Bird City: Adventures in New York’s Urban Wilds by Ryan Goldberg
  • Creatures of Darkness: 100 of the Planet’s Weird and Wonderful Animals That Come Out at Night by Dani Robertson (Available March 2026)
  • Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World by Nancy Castaldo
  • Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places by Alex Riley
  • The Wild Duck Chase: Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest by Martin J Smith

Children

  • Bird Block by Christopher Franceschelli  and Peski Studio  (Preschool and up)
  • The Bird in the Egg by DG Alonso (Ages 6-10)
  • The Bird Song by Willie Beesley and David Daniels
  • Five Little Penguins by Lily Murray and Holly Surplice (Baby to 3 years)
  • Tāne and the Birds: A New Zealand Story by Natalie McManus, Raissa Urdiales, and Mistilei Wriston (Ages 3-13)