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| I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature | 
 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Ward
Creators: Richard Louv, Susie Ghahremani
Publisher: Trumpeter
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 8928
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1590305353
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.083
EAN: 9781590305355
ASIN: 1590305353
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Beautiful Family Bonding Book May 31, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
i love dirt is deceptively simple. its premise is a series of lessons to help parents introduce their children to what we once took for granted (and children, who largely spend their time in front of the latest nintendo venture, are widely oblivious of) -- NATURE!
beginning with simple activities sure to bring young children joy- finding shapes and similarities in nature, to more complex discussions, the book offers a wide series of tools for parents to foster discussion and outside learning. it seems to keep in mind that most people who love children still don't have tons of time on their hands, so the instructions are simple and clear, to get right to the point and get everyone outside.
beautifully illustrated and an easy, fun read.
 if by activities you mean conversational pieces... July 25, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book does NOT provide activities. It's a list of conversational pieces one could have with their children about nature -- mostly just questions. I gave it 2 stars, since some of the questions were good ones. However, I was expecting actual activities I could do with my kids. I judged this book by the cover... and was disappointed.
Buy this one for every new baby and all of the parents and teachers of young children on your shopping list! June 4, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I LOVE DIRT!, with its enticing cover photograph of a small child headed down a dirt path into the woods, will call to the very audience for which it is intended--adults (parents, grandparents, and teachers alike) who love children and who want to feed their spirits in the best way possible, with time together outdoors in nature. With a foreward by none other than Richard Louv, author of the acclaimed LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS, this book is a compendium of ways to spend that time together in every season. No adult who wants to take a child outdoors need ever again be at a loss for ideas.
Rather than just a book of games or crafts, this book, by an award-winning children's author and elementary school teacher, focuses on meaningful experiential learning experiences. The timeless activity of gathering leaves in the fall grows to become a lesson on gravity. Rather than just watching birds, Ward invites children to keep a journal as Audubon did, sharpening their observation skills as they do.
The trim size invites adults to tuck the book into a pocket, purse or backpack. And you'll want to read it with a small stash of post-it flags at hand, to mark each of the appealing activities you'll want to try out with the children in your life!
 I love dirt too! June 10, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
While some think it is so obvious to teach your kids the things in this book, we as a culture forget about a lot of it and this is a nice, cute, compact little reminder to get outside. There are a lot of basic concepts with this like look for colors in nature, look for birds in the sky, but this book does go beyond that and how to help your kids do more than look for birds. It ask, do you see a flying bird, what about a bright bird, a dull bird, that sort of thing. Things that people don't always do.
I think this is an inexpensive, innocent reminder to parents and grandparents to do more than say, "go outside and play", but to go play too. And to do more than play, to learn life lessons by what is going on around you.
Educating and Experiencing Nature Made Easy! June 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love the outdoors and sharing it with my kids, and I loved Richard Louv's book Last Child in the Woods. So I was eager to read this new paperback that contains 52 easy ways to experience nature with one's kids and educate them about it.
I was really impressed by this book: short chapters divided into four seasons, with suggested activities to experience and concurrent teaching points about biology, physics, and the environment to help the little ones understand what they are seeing and doing.
Over and over again I caught myself thinking, "What a great idea... yea, that's a good one... gee, I didn't know that... I'm going to have to try that one out!"
A great book to read for any parent, grandparent, or anyone else involved in young people's lives. Go get a copy!
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