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Children’s Book of the Month: Epic Journeys

Our “Children’s” Book of the Month for March is Epic Journeys by Sam G. C. and Raquel Martín.

Notice how we have put the word “children’s” in quotations. When we saw this book we fell in love immediately because we get so many customers coming to Stanfords planning adventures on these very routes. We think it’s also wonderful for adults to get an overview of so many great trails, voyages, and journeys throughout history in one beautifully illustrated book.

Book of the Month: Save Me from the Waves

Our Book of the Month for March 2024 is Save Me from the Waves by Jessica Hepburn.

An adventure story – with a difference. Jessica Hepburn is an unlikely athlete – she was labelled the ‘arty’ not the ‘sporty’ one in school. She hates exercise and believes the only reason to do it is for food, booze and box-sets on the sofa. However, in her forties, following a succession of hard and sad life experiences she started to try and exercise her way out of heartbreak.

Children’s Book of the Month: Green

Our Children’s Book of the Month for February is Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet by Nicola Davies illustrated by Emily Sutton

This tree doesn’t look like it’s doing very much: it just stands there in the sunlight, big and green. But this tree is busy…

Starting with the secret workings of a tree, this book transports readers billions of years into the past; back to the moment when plant life first appeared on our planet. Covering its evolution, the steady emergence of fossil fuels and the extraordinary communities of plants around the world today, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton combine essential biology with a powerful message, calling on readers to celebrate and cherish the most precious colour on Earth: green.

Book of the Month: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Our Book of the Month for February is The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes.

Children’s Book of the Month: Lonely Planet Create Your Own Travel Journal

Our January Children’s Book of the Month is the Lonely Planet Kids Create Your Own Travel Journal.

Make your vacation memories last a lifetime with this awesome fill-in children’s travel journal that’s packed with brilliant activities and prompts to inspire kids to write and draw their adventures. Budding diarists can record precious moments from their trip in this pocket-sized book and create the ultimate holiday souvenir to cherish forever.

Book of the Month: Local

Our first Book of the Month for 2024 is Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award winning author Alastair Humphreys.

Escape into the overlooked adventures and insights from one man’s year of deeply exploring a 20km map of suburban England.

What surprises might you uncover in your own neighbourhood if you set aside assumptions and paid closer attention? After two decades of grand expeditions spanning the globe, Adventurer Alastair Humphreys embarked on a project to get to know his uninspiring corner of England through undertaking weekly microadventures within one local map.

Children’s Book of the Month: The Song Walker

Our February Children’s Book of the Month is The Song Walker by the 2022 Edward Stanford Children’s Travel Book of the Year winner Zillah Bethell.

The Song Walker is an extraordinary new story of friendship, discovery and courage from Zillah Bethell, author of The Shark Caller which won the Wales Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Children’s Travel Book of the Year 2022.

Book of the Month: Elixir by Kapka Kassabova

Our Book of the Month for February 2023 is Elixir by the former Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards winning writer Kapka Kassabova.

An exceptional work of narrative non-fiction by a prizewinning writer, Elixir is an exploration of place, people, plants, and a urgent call to rethink how we live. A search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene, from the award-winning author of Border.

Children’s Book of the Month: Lost

Our January Children’s Book of the Month is Lost by the award-winning illustrator Mariajo Illustrajo.

Lost is a visually stunning story showing that there is love, friendship and help to be found even in the loneliest of places.

A powerful story of friendship, with a gentle environmental undertone of taking care of animals in need.

Book of the Month: The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer

Our Book of the Month for January 2023 is The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World by the former Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award winner Pico Iyer.

One of the most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world’s holiest places and where we might find paradise on Earth.

“It’s so easy, I thought, to place Paradise in the past or the future – anywhere but here.”

After half a century of travel, from Ethiopia to Tibet, from Belfast to Jerusalem, Pico Iyer asks himself what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict. In a spectacular journey, both inward and outward, Iyer roams from crowded mosques in Iran to a film studio in North Korea, from a holy mountain in Japan to the sometimes spooky emptiness of the Australian outback.