Greetings From New Jersey: A Workbook for Young Adventurers [Paperback]

Helen-Chantal Pike (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 17, 2006

This illustrated workbook for children ages 8-11 is a multi-disciplinary educational tool that introduces pupils to the geography, culture, and history found in all six regions of the Garden State. It includes projects for independent or group activity. It is ideal for both newcomers to New Jersey and those from here. Parents, teachers, and grandparents can use this 68-page primer to help give children pride in their home state with tasks aimed at increasing their math, reading, writing, artistic, and analytical skills.

Product Details

• Paperback: 68 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (May 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 141963562X
• ISBN-13: 978-1419635625
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,446,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born in New Jersey's second oldest seashore resort, Long Branch, in the middle of the Suez Crisis. I grew up in a city suburb, attending the public school system until my father, the late author Robert E. Pike, and I were a package deal (student/language professor) at a private day school. I chose to go to college on the Piasa Bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River (thank you, Mark Twain) so I could see another part of the country: art museums in St. Louis and Chicago; the Cahokia Native American burial mounds in Illinois; the Elephant Rocks in the Ozarks; a medieval fair in Swanee, Tennessee, and Nilo Farms where I sat in a duck blind to count birds for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. My next stop was Paris to attend the Sorbonne, and backpack around Europe. My first newspaper job at the Asbury Park (NJ) Press led to my attending the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University where I wrote my master's thesis on the impact of real estate redevelopment around Tompkins Square Park in the early '80s. Six years of covering high tech and another six as a travel writer and photographer, and by the mid-'90s I was producing books. Still am! And, I use a ripped-from-the-headlines approach to lecture on media at Rutgers University. I also teach writing.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Spark students' (or child's) imagination for New Jersey travel, August 20, 2006

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This review is from: Greetings From New Jersey: A Workbook for Young Adventurers (Paperback)

I love hands-on projects for children, and this activity book is full of them, workable for a range of ages. From creating your own restaurant based on foods grown and served in Jersey restaurants to calculating cross-city mileage and designing your own town, the ideas can work on a weekend car-trip or as a year-long classroom project. Fun!