Nature and Me: A guide to the joys and excitements of the outdoors - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 191289131X ISBN 13: 9781912891313

Verlag: The School of Life, 2022

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An essential guide to encourage children to explore, enjoy and benefit from the natural world around them.

** "This thought-provoking book should provide many opportunities to discuss and learn from the natural world. Highly recommend for classrooms and libraries." – School Library Journal Starred Reviews **

Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to enhance this time spent outside and show children how nature can be fun, uplifting, consoling, and even offer companionship.

This is a book about how nature can touch us all and help us with our lives (especially when we might be feeling bored, sad, or lonely). Children learn about the ways in which they can be comforted, inspired, and uplifted by examples of nature such as:

– a flowing river
– a cow in a field
– clouds in the sky
– rabbits in their burrows
– stars at night
– or a cuddle with a favorite puppy.

This is an inspirational book, not just educating children about the natural world, but teaching them to love and connect with it. Beautiful illustrations and a tone that is encouraging, warm and accessible makes it easy for children, and their favorite adults, to relate to.

• ILLUSTRATIONS BY TYLA MASON bring animals and plants to life to get children excited about connecting with nature.
• EDUCATIONAL AND FUN encourages children to discover what’s amazing and interesting about nature.
• EXPANDS EMOTIONAL LITERACY by helping kids explore how their environment makes them feel.
• AGES 8 AND UP with fun facts and engaging activities.

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An essential guide to encourage children to explore, appreciate and benefit from the natural world around them.

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6. You are a hedgehog!

You’re not really a hedgehog, of course. But one of the very clever things your brain can do is think about what it would be like to be a hedgehog.
You’d be sleeping most of the day and you’d be getting up when it started to get dark – so no school for you! You’d only be about 20 centimetres long. If you came across an old football boot it might look like a strange cousin.

 
You get excited by the smell of a rotting leaf – maybe underneath there’s a delicious caterpillar or a lovely beetle you can have for breakfast. You don’t walk very fast – it might take you a few minutes just to go along a short garden path (you really like human gardens). You’ve never watched television. You don’t know what a holiday is. You can’t think in words, but you have lots of feelings. When you meet another hedgehog, you’re both quite chatty. You grunt and snuffle and make little squeals to show you’re happy to meet each other. But it’s very scary if you catch sight of a badger or hear an owl hooting. You quickly roll yourself up into a little ball, with all your sharp, spiky hairs sticking out to keep you safe. Soon it will be morning and you’ll head home to the cozy little burrow you dug in some soft earth, hidden away behind some bushes.

The hedgehog is teaching you about imagination. You could also imagine what it’s like to be someone else: a grown-up, maybe, or someone living in another country. If you were them, what would you be feeling? What would excite you? What would frighten you? Your imagination helps you to understand other people much better.

 
You can use your brain to travel into the minds and lives of other people and animals. It’s one of the most interesting and helpful journeys you can ever make.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The School of Life
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 191289131X
• ISBN 13: 9781912891313
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Mason Tyla
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
• Herausgeber: Life Of School The, De Botton Alain
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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