The Kids' Guide to Nature Adventures: 80 Great Activities for Exploring the Outdoors

by Joe Rhatigan

“This readable guide is packed with detail about how to have fun exploring the natural world, from the backyard to the seashore to the forest to national parks...Attractive, browsable design, with color photos on thick paper...This is a must for middle-school environmentalists and outdoor adventures.”—Booklist.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Science, Nature

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2003

About the author

Joe Rhatigan has authored more than fifteen books for children and adults, including Don't Unravel When You Travel and Out-of-This-World Astronomy. He has also produced several best-selling books and series, including 101 Places You Gotta See Before You're 12!, The Boo Boo Book, and the My Very Favorite Art Book series. Joe has been a poet, a teacher, a marketing manager, and a newspaper boy. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife and three children

Reviews

[Susan Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great ideas for getting outside with kids and exploring with a purpose.

[Daniel Riles · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is an engaging intro to the outdoors for kids. I hope it will engage my own when they are a little older, starting around 6 or so. The photos and activities should be appealing, but from there they will have to search out other sources. As I write this, we are having a blizzard in New England. I think the plaster casts of snow prints activity might be a fun use of the book right away.

[B · Rating 4 out of 5]

great for slightly older kids (elementary school) -
L is camping obsessed (funy, since we've never been camping with him) - and this is a great reference for everything from making a tent to activities with bugs and track identification. cute!

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many fun ideas to do outside with the kids! Some of these we usually do and lots of great new ideas