Eliza’s Journal

November 2, 2012 By John E. Riutta in Newly Noted Books Tags: book, craigmore, eliza, green, journal, williams

Following my meeting their representatives at the 2012 Wordstock festival in Portland, Oregon, a copy of what was quite likely the most interesting book discovery I made at that event, Caelyn A.B. Williams and Kati Green’s Eliza’s Journal, arrived in my post box. Formatted as the journal of a teen-aged girl spending the summer with relatives on Orcas Island, Washington and taking up a job as a natural history illustrator while there, there is much about Eliza’s Journal that appears promising, not the least of which being its potential to reach a demographic group of readers all-too-frequently underserved by natural history writers – teen-aged girls.

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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Eliza’s Journal Reviewed by The Well Read Naturalist
November 6, 2012 @ 10:47

[…] “Formatted as the journal of a teen-aged girl spending the summer with relatives on Orcas Island, Washington and taking up a job as a natural history illustrator while there, there is much about Eliza’s Journal that appears promising, not the least of which being its potential to reach a demographic group of readers all-too-frequently underserved by natural history writers – teen-aged girls.” –The Well Read Naturalist (Nov. 2012) […]

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