I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature |
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| Authors: | Ward, Jennifer |
| Publisher: | Shambhala |
| BISAC/Subject: | SCI100000, FAM002000, NAT010000 |
| ISBN: | 9780834822399, Related ISBNs: 0834822393, 1590305353, 9780834822399, 9781590305355 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 144, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's sense of wonder.
Jennifer Ward is the author of numerous acclaimed parenting books and books for children, inspired by nature.
"Jennifer Ward has created a book that will serve to gently introduce parents to nature, even as parents are using it to help guide a child into the narural world. Children—and parents—learn to observe, as well as appreciate, the basic joys of getting their hands dirty and feet wet. Discoveres become shared experience."—from the forword by Richard Louv
Jennifer Ward is the author of numerous acclaimed parenting books and books for children, inspired by nature.
"Jennifer Ward has created a book that will serve to gently introduce parents to nature, even as parents are using it to help guide a child into the narural world. Children—and parents—learn to observe, as well as appreciate, the basic joys of getting their hands dirty and feet wet. Discoveres become shared experience."—from the forword by Richard Louv
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