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Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery Books Review

by Alyssa

Winter is right around the corner and what better way to stay warm with the family than to hunker down with some hot chocolate and a good book! We were sent some beautiful Gumboot Kids hardcover books from Firefly Books to review along with two cute and cuddly plush characters from the book series!

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Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery book series, written by Eric Hogan and Tara Hungerford, is a fun and educational book series when it comes to easy reading with your kids! The book series was even featured on CBC!

Follow the adorable and curious mouse duo, Daisy and Scout, as they go on fun and educational adventures solving mysteries all around the forest! You can read this books review we also did for Gumboot Kids!

The Case of the Shrinking Friend: A Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery

The Case of the Shrinking Friend: A Gumboot Kids Nature MysteryPin

Scout and Daisy go on a winter hike and on their way to the valley Daisy sees her snow friend she had built just days before. Except there’s a difference, it’s smaller! Why is her friend shrinking? Join them as they find clues to solve the case!

One of almost everyone’s favourite winter activity after a fresh snowfall is making a big old snowman! There’s nothing more fun than getting outside and rolling up some fresh and sticky snow to create your own outside decoration and new friend! What happens when your new snow friend starts to become smaller than you originally made him?

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In this story, find out about the different kinds of snowflakes that fall and how the weather affects how the snow falls. Will it be light and fluffy? Will it be wet and sticky? Or maybe a mix of rain?

Read with your little one and help the cute characters learn all about winter temperatures and how snow melts when it becomes a little warmer. This is the perfect book for a snow day story!

The Case of the Hanging Food Catcher: A Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery

The Case of the Hanging Food Catcher: A Gumboot Kids Nature MysteryPin


Scout and Daisy are getting ready to make pumpkin pie when Scout mentions he saw a hanging food catcher on his garden gate. What is a hanging food catcher? Join them as they find clues to solve this mystery! 

Springtime, summer, and fall are popular seasons to see our eight legged spider friends. We find them outside, inside, and they always making webs. But what for? Besides being useful for a spooky haunted house, why do these little creatures make these webs all over?

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Spider webs aren’t decorations. They are actually tools spiders use to “catch” their food! It may seem yucky to us, but to the spiders, that is how they survive in nature. They can also help us by catching pests that hurt us like mosquito and black flies!

Scout and Daisy go on an adventure to find out what cobwebs are and why they are made. They find out a lot more than they had thought about these eight legged bugs! Maybe next time you won’t be so keen to broom away that web in the corner!

The Case of the Growing Bird Feeder: A Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery

The Case of the Growing Bird Feeder: A Gumboot Kids Nature MysteryPin

Scout and Daisy go on a picnic when Daisy realizes she forgot to water her bird feeders! What kind of bird feeders need to be watered? Join Daisy as she helps Scout find clues to solve this curious case! 

Flowers are beautiful to have in your garden. But did you know they can also serve a purpose to help nature? Special flowers like sun flowers can be used to feed natures little friends!

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Each flower in nature does something special. Some flowers have pollen for bees, some flowers have berries to eat, some flowers have medicine, and some flowers have food!

The seeds in the flowers are natures way of feeding birds! It’s amazing what you can learn just from your own back yard! Join Scout and Daisy as they learn all about how sun flowers turn from tiny seeds to giant growing bird feeders!

The Case of the Wooden Timekeeper: A Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery

The Case of the Wooden Timekeeper: A Gumboot Kids Nature MysteryPin

As Scout gathers wood for their winter fires, he notices something extraordinary! He has a wooden time keeper right in the forest! What is a wooden time keeper? You’ll have to follow Scout and Daisy to solve this one! 

There are so many things to learn in the great outdoors. You don’t even have to go far to look. From bugs to birds, animals and plants, there are so many wonders when you get outdoors!

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Have you ever seen a fresh cut piece of wood? Did you ever notice the lines in the tree? Circle upon circle, what are they? This book teaches kids all about the history that comes with trees! The bigger the tree, the more stories they have to tell!

Each ring in the wood represents how old the tree is! The more circles, the bigger the tree and the older it is! With a little help from a handy book about the forest and a few clues to collect, Daisy and Scout are on their way to learn some new things about the history of trees!

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Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery Book Series Review

We give these books two enthusiastic thumbs up! The stories are entertaining and heartwarming, but also easy enough for a younger child to read. Each story is an engaging mystery and has a little lesson inside about nature and animals. Educational and fun! We really enjoy the “life like” images in these books depicting the characters (which are super cute making them younger kid friendly). The visuals make those characters almost come to life while we read the stories! Amazing art both literally and visually. You and your family will genuinely love this book series! These books are geared for ages 3-7; however, they are an excellent source for any young reader under the age of 10. 

You can buy all of the Gumboots Kids book series through online bookstores like Amazon, Indigo, or BookManager! Follow Firefly Books on social media: Twitter and Instagram! 

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Who? Rose. I’m Rose. A 40 year old mother from Canada who is recently discovering who she really is in more than one way. For the longest time, I lived as someone I was not. Brainwashed by people who were supposed to nourish and protect their child. I blamed myself. Now, I blame nobody. I choose to make changes for myself. For my body, for my spirit. Even if it took me this long. It’s better now than ever. Life isn’t an easy journey but it’s your journey. No matter who you are, where you come from or what you did in your past; it’s never too late to start over and really, truly find yourself. It took me years of trial and error trying to find myself. Call me a “late bloomer” but I’d rather be late than have never bloomed at all.

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  12. I would love to read the Case of the Growing Bird Feeder because we have a few on our property and would be fun to pretend along with the story.

  16. The Case of the Shrinking Friend: A Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery sounds adorable! And my grandson (5) and I were just talking about needing new books!

  21. I would love to read the Case of the Shrinking Friend and the Case of the Growing Bird Feeder to my grand kids. They sound fascinating to me and I am 68. If I am interested to know more ,I am sure my grand kids will too.

  78. I would like to read the, “The Case of the Shrinking Friend” to my niece so she could learn more about winter weather in terms she can understand.

  270. I would like to read The Case of the Growing Bird Feeder to my kids because we just received a bird feeder last year and are looking for ways to attract birds to it.

  284. I would like to read, ” The Case Of The Growing Bird Feeder” to my kids, because they enjoy bird watching and putting out bird feed.

  285. I would like to purchase, ” A Child’s Portrait Of Shakespeare, because my 11 year old love watching Shakespeare plays.

  342. I love mysteries and would love to share my love of this genre with my granddaughter. I might start with The Case of the Wooden Timekeeper: A Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery and The Case of the Shrinking Friend: A Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery

  343. I have a couple of nature loving grandchildren who would love Catepillars: Find and raise your own and I love Chimpanzees so I would have to buy and share Chimpanzee Rescue: Changing the future of endangered wildlife.

  362. My girls would have fun with the email polish dipped sea shells. They’ve been loving painting their nails and getting a little better each time.

  380. The Case of the Shrinking Friend: A Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery would be a fun book to read with the grandkids, they would learn all about winter weather and snow!