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Go Wild!: 101 Things to Do Outdoors Before You Grow Up

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I rarely love kids books, but this one is a knock-out. Wish I'd had this one as a kid. My niece loves working on these projects with me.

This is hands-down the most visually delicious, absorbing book on getting kids oriented to outdoor skills. Stellar photos of kids in the UK having a BLAST! ... and all sorts of great projects for them to take up, from "stone age tools," to extracting condensed water from plants, to building fires (with supervision), and on and on.

The narrative is a little odd, and I hope the author revises the text. It's clearly a genius kids' book, but the author has chosen to write it more like a teacher's or parent's activity book. "Sylvia and Jenny really enjoyed doing x." I don't feel that's much of a limitation, as the whole point is to stay involved as an adult in the child's progress -- poring over the pages WITH your child to plan these things -- providing the encouragement, the familiarity, and the continuity. In most cases, a child is likely to lose interest in the text in any event before she loses interest in the fantastic pictures and adventures these kids are having as they acquire new skills in "going wild."