Curiously Illustrated Parts and Pieces

Caution: These are gifts for the curious. Boo and I love these beautifully, curiously illustrated subject books by Julia Rothman. We found them on our own and couldn’t even wait until Christmas:

The first book is Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the Natural World. It’s a thick, beefy book that covers everything from tornados to earth crust to birds and butterflies. Every single page is a unique illustration:

I’m the queen of random knowledge so I love pages like toads vs frogs:

And constellations:

And moss varieties and waterbears:

The second book is Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life: 

Any gardener or country-living type will love the pages on varieties of vegetables:

Cool random things everyone should know anyways like knot instructions:

Be the smartest person in the car as you learn how to distinguish between barn types and and truss construction:

Yeah we are nerdy around here, and we love learning by whimsical illustration.