Wow, this large sized book filled with photographs and illustrations is a book that I wish I would have had as a kid. The Kids Guide to Nature Adventures would be a great book to give to your kids at the beginning of summer to keep them entertained on those days when they are sure to say that they are bored and don’t have anything to do. This book solves that problem because it has plenty of things to do which are definately not boring; they are fun and filled with learning experiences.
There are chapters on Hiking, Camping, Wildlife, Mini-Wildlife, Plant Life, Exploring The Shore, and Night Life. Each chapter has activities, helpful hints, photographs and exploratory ideas. It is so interesting in fact that I do believe a child looking for something to do will find it between these pages and not even realize that they are learning valuable information!
While the book fosters the idea of exploring the world we live in it also instills practical and solid information about the proper ways to do so; keeping safety and conservation in mind. I really like how the book teaches kids to practice independent outdoor skills but also, instills the wisdom of keeping adults involved and informed about the activities.
This book is a few years old, it was published in 2003 by Lark Books, a division of Sterling Publishing Co, Inc. It was written by Joe Rhatigan and the photographs were taken by John Widman.
This is a great book for kids. This handbook shows wonderful illustrations for performing magic tricks with ropes and coins. It also gives you wonderful tips for preparing ahead of time to do a trick, gives information about what props are needed to do the tricks; and, the book also gives ideas and hints on performing the tricks in the best way possible. There are even little snippets about famous and skilled magicians and tricks that they were known for.
For those who have not performed in front of an audience…there are some helpful ideas on how to relax your audience and help them focus on what you want them to focus on and how to distract them from the things that you dont want them to notice while performing a trick. For tricks that use slight of hand motions there are some behind the scenes suggestions that will keep the audience guessing about how the magician was able to perform such a neat trick.
Kids will love this book so that they can amaze anyone by doing these tricks in front of them. It will make them an instant hit with their peers when they know how the trick is done and their friends do not.
The author of the book is Joe Fullman, the editor is Amanda Askew, the designer is Jackie Palmer, the illustrator is Mark Turner for Beehive Illustrations. The publisher is Steve Evans and the creative director is Zeta Davies. The book was published by QEB Publishing, Inc in 2008. Their website can be found here: http://www.qeb-publishing.com
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