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.
