Introduction to the wonders of the physical world: sunbeams and the work they do, the aerial ocean in which we live, a drop of water on its travels, the two great sculptors-water and ice, the voices of nature and how we hear them, the life of a primrose, the history of a piece of coal, bees in the hive, and bees and flowers. Suitable for ages 10 and up.
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A very inspiring book!,
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This review is from: The Fairy-Land of Science (Hardcover)
For me, a researcher, this book is very inspiring, because (i) the author was not a scientist, but she can understand the topic so well that the book is attractive to me; (ii) the book tells me many pieces of basic knowledge around our daily life, which honestly I do not know well; (iii) this book re-makes me be interested in popular scientific books, which I once loved to read when I was young.
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All the Figures (illustrations) left out of the book,
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The Fairy-Land of Science is a wonderful book, but this particular printing of it (the cover shows a lovely color photograph of a bee on a pink flower cluster) leaves out all of the 63 illustrations. For example, Buckley writes, "We shall not have gone many yards before we see impressions of plants in the shale, like those in this specimen (Fig. 47)..." There is no Figure 47, nor are there any of the Figures to which she refers. Oddly enough, it appears that nobody involved in the printing of this book even bothered to read it. Perhaps the Figures were left out intentionally, but being a science book, the illustrations are hardly optional details, and in that case, one would think the references to them would also be removed. "Book jungle" appears to be the printer responsible for this version. Every book on their order form, at the back of the book, as far as my knowledge extends, is a public domain book (as is Fairy-Land of Science). An additional lesser objection I have is that the text is 6" wide, which I find harder to deal with than the standard 4-5" but this may just be a personal preference.
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Outstanding Waldorf education, home schooling resource,
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This book needs tags: Waldorf education, Waldorf methods, Waldorf science elementary, Waldorf nature storiesA classic of children's science teaching published in 1882 apparently. On a very cursory first glance in Google books, Buckley voices the exact tone desirable in Waldorf education; that is, an imaginative approach to science facts, based in reality but cognizant of etheric, fairy and spiritual forces. In a phrase we call this "making science come alive." Whole-child method elementary teachers who do all their lower elementary science teaching thru storytelling, will appreciate this. Sadly this child-friendly "voice" in the field of science was extinguished in the U.S. after about 1975. This book may be a valuable science reader book for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade children who enjoy science.
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I HAVE promised to introduce you to-day to the fairy-land of sciencea somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science as a bundle of dry facts, while fairy-land is all that is beautiful, and full of poetry and imagination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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I HAVE promised to introduce you to-day to the fairy-land of sciencea somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science as a bundle of dry facts, while fairy-land is all that is beautiful, and full of poetry and imagination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nursing bees, aerial ocean, invisible vapor, yellow bags, young bees Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Peter Bell (Cornell Wordsworth) by William Wordsworth on page 6
- The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella Burton Buckley in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Thinking (Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series) by David Clifford on page 25, and Back Matter
- Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World by Barbara T. Gates on page 54
- A Literary Education by Catherine Levison on page 54
- The Fairy Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley in Front Matter
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