David Sobel has spent the last twenty-five years working in the field of child development, place-based education, and parenting with nature. He currently serves as Senior Faculty in the Education Department at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire. His expertise and passion led to being identified as one of the “gurus and rock stars of environmental education” by Teacher magazine and one of the 2007 Daring Dozen educational leaders in Edutopia magazine. David is the author of Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens and The Sky Above and the Mud Below.