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Catch a crayfish, count the stars : fun projects, skills, and adventures for outdoor kids / Steven Rinella ; with Brody Henderson ; illustrations by Max Temescu.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2023]Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593448977
  • 0593448979
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
I. Navigation and exploration -- II. Collecting and foraging -- III. Fishing, hunting, and wildlife -- IV. Garden and home.
Summary: "Does climbing a tree, building a bug hotel, spearing a bullfrog, stalking wild animals, and scouting for petrified wood sound more fun than homework or chores? If so, this guide is your perfect companion to endless summer days and rainy fall afternoons alike. Filled with advice, insights, and activities to inspire wonder and excitement about the natural world, Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars is a curious kid's treasure trove, filled to the brim with outdoor projects, skills, and adventures complete with illustrations. The book presents a ton of fun and exciting ways to explore the natural world, like: building an outdoor exploration kit identifying constellations and navigating using the sun and stars collecting fossils and other geological wonders tracking animals and following weather patterns making your own compass growing your own fruits and vegetables Building survival shelters and primitive hunting weapons fishing, hunting, and foraging for wild foods making cool art projects using natural materials"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 796.5 R579 Available 33111011075237
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 796.5 R579 Available 33111011305410
Children's Book Children's Book Northport Library Children's NonFiction 796.5 R579 Available 33111011130016
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . A hands-on, gloves-off, muddy-boots activity book for young adventurers ages eight and up, offering fun projects and adventures to build lifelong skills and knowledge about the natural world-from the host of MeatEater andauthor of The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival

Does climbing a tree, building a bug hotel, spearing a bullfrog, stalking wild animals, and scouting for petrified wood sound more fun than homework or chores? If so, this guide is your perfect companion to endless summer days and rainy fall afternoons alike. Filled with advice, insights, and activities to inspire wonder and excitement about the natural world, Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars is a curious kid's treasure trove, filled to the brim with outdoor projects, skills, and adventures complete with illustrations. The book presents a ton of fun and exciting ways to explore the natural world, like

. building an outdoor exploration kit
. identifying constellations and navigating using the sun and stars
. collecting fossils and other geological wonders
. tracking animals and following weather patterns
. making your own compass
. growing your own fruits and vegetables
. building survival shelters and primitive hunting weapons
. fishing, hunting, and foraging for wild foods
. making cool art projects using natural materials

A must-have guide for budding naturalists, scientists, gardeners, anglers, foragers, and hunters, Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars helps get kids out into nature, imparting lifelong knowledge and skills along the way.

Includes index.

I. Navigation and exploration -- II. Collecting and foraging -- III. Fishing, hunting, and wildlife -- IV. Garden and home.

"Does climbing a tree, building a bug hotel, spearing a bullfrog, stalking wild animals, and scouting for petrified wood sound more fun than homework or chores? If so, this guide is your perfect companion to endless summer days and rainy fall afternoons alike. Filled with advice, insights, and activities to inspire wonder and excitement about the natural world, Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars is a curious kid's treasure trove, filled to the brim with outdoor projects, skills, and adventures complete with illustrations. The book presents a ton of fun and exciting ways to explore the natural world, like: building an outdoor exploration kit identifying constellations and navigating using the sun and stars collecting fossils and other geological wonders tracking animals and following weather patterns making your own compass growing your own fruits and vegetables Building survival shelters and primitive hunting weapons fishing, hunting, and foraging for wild foods making cool art projects using natural materials"-- Provided by publisher.

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