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Kids in the Wild Garden is a fun and accessible guide to practical interaction with nature, inviting you to embark on an adventure with your children by simply stepping into and exploring the amazing life that lies hidden and flourishes within your own garden. Demonstrating that you do not have to look far to discover rich and unexpected wildlife, the book's playful format and variety of experiments, projects and games, make this the perfect resource for adults and children of all ages. Designed to get kids away from the TV and to get their hands dirty, Kids in the Wild Garden encourages children to learn about caring for and understanding the fascinating natural world that surrounds them. Through sight, touch, smell and sound children can interact with nature through projects aimed to educate and excite. Grab your trusty magnifying glass and find out interesting facts about all the creepy crawlies in your garden—for example did you know that some ants milk caterpillars?—as well as learning things such as how to build a bird box, grow your own tadpole tank, create your very own butterfly garden and create a safe and warm habitat for your favourite winter bugs. Kids in the Wild Garden also provides graspable introductions to biology, botany and ecology alongside all the facts you will need to care for the plants and animals in your very own garden. Instructions are easy to follow, step-by-step and are accompanied with child-friendly illustrations, bright and informative photographs, and cool facts and tips. This lively book will help both children, parents, teachers and friends develop a long-term, enjoyable approach to their natural surroundings. AUTHOR: Elizabeth McCorquodale is a passionate gardener and an irrepressible gardening writer. She loves to share the fun of gardening with her three children and thinks that being outside and growing stuff is a terrific way to feeling great. Her other work includes Growing Stuff: an Alternative Guide to Gardening, and Kids in the Garden: Growing Plants for Food and Fun. SELLING POINTS: • Following the success of Kids in the Garden, Kids in the Wild Garden is a new and exciting guide encouraging children to learn, play and enjoy nature and offers a wealth of creative ideas on how to explore and learn about what nature has to offer, with practical projects on how to use materials in fun, unique ways. • Jam-packed with outdoor projects, gardening tips, fascinating facts, jokes, recipes and fun expeditions, this book aims to get children out in the fresh air by encouraging exploration, care for the environment and imaginative play. • Projects include: growing a tank-full of tadpoles, planting a butterfly garden and a mini-meadow, making a bird tree and designing cosy houses for wildlife visitors. • With a quirky, charming design and vibrant illustrations and photographs, the book provides easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, a key with fun symbols and full details on the equipment needed. • Kids in the Wild Garden will introduce the whole family to a new way of interacting, learning and having fun in nature's playground. ILLUSTRATIONS 257 colour & b/w

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"""A gem of a book! [] this fresh and playful book if brimming with colourful ideas, experiments, projects, recipes and games for children of all ages."" ""Green Living Magazine"" ""Devised by passionate gardener Elizabeth McCorquodale, the book offers a playful hands-on guide to the outdoors, encouraging bussing explorers to see gardens as their own nature reserve full of interesting activities to stimulate their senses."" ""Kitchen Garden Magazine"" """"Kids in the Wild Garden"" encourages youngsters to pull on their wellies and venture off the garden path to learn all about the fauna to be found right outside their back door."" ""Gloucester Echo"" ""Bake a cake to rescue starving starlings."" ""The Times"" ""For a practical list of suggested projects, as well as lots of fun nature education information quizzes and activities, read ""Kids in the Wild Garden."" "" "" The Midwest Book Review"""" ""A gem of a book! [...] this fresh and playful book if brimming with colourful ideas, experiments, projects, recipes and games for children of all ages."" ""Green Living Magazine"" ""Devised by passionate gardener Elizabeth McCorquodale, the book offers a playful hands-on guide to the outdoors, encouraging bussing explorers to see gardens as their own nature reserve full of interesting activities to stimulate their senses."" ""Kitchen Garden Magazine"" """"Kids in the Wild Garden"" encourages youngsters to pull on their wellies and venture off the garden path to learn all about the fauna to be found right outside their back door."" ""Gloucester Echo"" ""Bake a cake ... to rescue starving starlings."" ""The Times"" ""For a practical list of suggested projects, as well as lots of fun nature education information quizzes and activities, read ""Kids in the Wild Garden."" "" "" The Midwest Book Review"""

<br> A gem of a book! [...] this fresh and playful book if brimming with colourful ideas, experiments, projects, recipes and games for children of all ages. Green Living Magazine <br><br> Devised by passionate gardener Elizabeth McCorquodale, the book offers a playful hands-on guide to the outdoors, encouraging bussing explorers to see gardens as their own nature reserve full of interesting activities to stimulate their senses. Kitchen Garden Magazine <br><br> Kids in the Wild Garden encourages youngsters to pull on their wellies and venture off the garden path to learn all about the fauna to be found right outside their back door. Gloucester Echo <br><br> Bake a cake ... to rescue starving starlings. The Times

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Elizabeth McCorquodale is the author of ""Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to Gardening"" and ""Kids in the Garden: Growing Plants for Food and Fun."" Elizabeth studied Amenity Horticulture and Landscape Design at Algonquin College in Ottawa. After returning to the UK, she spent three years working in a Garden Center before becoming a freelance garden adviser and designer. She has also worked at a local school, helping children to learn about plants and growing things in the garden. Elizabeth McCorquodale lives in the UK.

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