Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up A fun, hands on approach to getting involved in nature, The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book is a year-round how-to activity guidebook for getting kids outdoors and exploring nature, be it catching fireflies in
| TITLE | : | Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.96 (859 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0762783524 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 224 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-04-02 |
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Honorable Mention of the 2013 National Outdoor Book Awards.
Nature is a destination, but you don't have to travel anywhere to find it. Just open the door and step outside. A fun, hands on approach to getting involved in nature, The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book is a year-round how-to activity guidebook for getting kids outdoors and exploring nature, be it catching fireflies in the cool summer evenings; making birdfeeders in the fall from peanut butter, pine cones, and seed; building a snowman in 3 feet of fresh winter snow; or playing duck, duck, goose with friends in a meadow on a warm spring day. The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book includes 448 things to do in nature for kids of all ages--more than one activity for every single day of the year. Each of the year's four seasons includes fifty checklist item
EDITORIAL :
From Booklist
Just in time for summer comes a definitive manual on taking advantage of everything the outdoors has to offer. Tornio and Keffer encourage kids to appreciate the subtleties of nature in a fast-paced, technology-saturated world. The manual is divided into four chapters, one for each season. Each chapter has its own checklist of activities, from the obvious, such as building a snowman, to the more inspired, such as creating a DIY winter wreath. Activities include recipes, trip destinations, crafts, games, and more. Each activity is measured on an adventure scale, so readers can decide just how bold they would like to be. The overarching goal is unstructured, imaginative play that will foster an appreciation for fresh air and nature throughout the year. This guidebook can be considered a sort of response to the overscheduled media environment that most young people find t
REVIEW :
The description of this book online and on the back cover is completely accurate. Surely the collections in Paris, Cadiz, Amsterdam and elsewhere have extensive plans that might be included in such a book? Finally, I found the editing of this book to be execrable, with misprints and typographic errors rife throughout, and represents very shoddy work by the publishers and editing team. My favorite book! I'd give it a million stars. When you populate a book with more than a score, you run the risk of cheapening the impact, which has been done with Sting.
To give a feel for the editing, and the style and flow of this work, I am posting a brief excerpt below.
Excerpt
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