Rewilding Childhood
Rewilding Childhood

Author: Mike Fairclough

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

Published: 2022-08-23

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1401966675

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Mike Fairclough invites parents to facilitate their children’s naturally rebellious nature to help them thrive in a turbulent world. Discover the revolutionary path to incredible parenting and embrace your child's free spirit, inspire their imagination and prepare them for a confident, empowered future. Foreword by Dame Jacqueline Wilson. This isn’t your average parenting book. This is a call for rebellion; a liberating, transformative, joyful rebellion, proven to inspire confidence and resilience. Encouraging children to explore and reconnect with their adventurous side is more important than ever. Rewilding Childhood offers game-changing tools and techniques to help you raise empowered children who will thrive in this unpredictable world. You’ll find out how climbing trees instils a healthy attitude to risk, how adventuring into fields and forests cultivates gratitude, and how getting messy with a paintbrush can liberate a child and elevate their confidence. Full of down-to-earth advice, honesty and positivity, this book will encourage both you and your child to move beyond the boundaries of everyday life to become self-assured, secure and, above all, happy.

Rewilding Childhood
Rewilding Childhood

Author: Mike Fairclough

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1788177193

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Mike Fairclough invites parents to facilitate their children’s naturally rebellious nature to help them thrive in a turbulent world. Discover the revolutionary path to incredible parenting and embrace your child's free spirit, inspire their imagination, and prepare them for a confident, empowered future. This isn't your average parenting book. This is a call for rebellion: a liberating, transformative, joyful rebellion, proven to encourage confidence and resilience in children. Rewilding Childhood offers game-changing strategies, tools, and techniques to help you raise empowered children who will thrive in this unpredictable world. Renowned headmaster and father-of-four Mike Fairclough's tried-and-tested approach shares how to nurture your child's naturally rebellious side, encourage their sense of adventure and independence, and help them develop optimism about the future and gratitude for the world around them. This trailblazing book includes: • practical, liberating exercises to explore freedom and creativity with your child • advice on how to set non-restrictive goals and positive intentions • examples of how play and games can improve problem-solving and enhance imagination • tips on how to encourage your child to reconnect with nature, from looking under stones for insects to journeying into forests and fields • simple ways to help your child step outside their comfort zone and build confidence in their own abilities Encouraging children to explore and reconnect with their adventurous side is more important than ever. Full of down-to-earth advice, honesty, and positivity, this book will encourage both you and your child to move beyond the boundaries of everyday life to become self-assured, secure and, above all, happy.

Rewilding Children’s Imaginations
Rewilding Children’s Imaginations

Author: Pia Jones

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-14

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1000858251

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Rewilding Children’s Imaginations is a practical and creative resource designed to engage children in the natural world through folktales, storytelling, and artmaking. The guide introduces 21 folklore stories from across the world alongside 99 creative activities, spanning nature and the four seasons of the year. Using the lens of folktales and myths of the land, children are encouraged to explore a variety of activities and exercises across different arts media, from visual art making to storytelling, drama, and movement. This resource: Helps teachers and group facilitators to build confidence in offering a range of creative learning experiences, inspired by nature. Provides a collection of easy-to-use, cross-curricular and storytelling activities. Allows children to connect with nature, their imagination, and folktales from around the world. Builds new skills in oracy, artmaking, collaboration, wellbeing, care of the environment, diversity, respect, and tolerance, and more. Inspires children to tell stories and make art both individually and collaboratively, helping them build confidence as active creators in their community. Shares creative tools and positive learning experiences to inspire children, teachers, and parents across the school year. Rewilding Children’s Imaginations brings together nature, art, and oral storytelling in easy and accessible ways to help children connect with the world around them, as well as with their own emotional landscapes. It is essential and enjoyable reading for primary teachers and early years professionals, outdoors practitioners, therapists, art educators, community and youth workers, home schoolers, parents, carers, and families.

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature
Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature

Author: Elly McCausland

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1040022650

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Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits of children, and with it the assumption that adventure is a timeless and stable constant whose meaning and value is self-evident. A closer enquiry into British and American adventure texts for children over the past 150 years reveals a host of complexities occluded by the term, and the ways in which adults invoke adventure as a means of attempting to get to grips with the nebulous figure of ‘the child’. Writing about adventure also necessitates writing about risk, and this book argues that adults have historically used adventure to conceptualise the relationship between children and risk: the risks children themselves pose to society; the risks that threaten their development; and how they can be trained to manage risk in socially normative and desirable ways. Tracing this tendency back to its development and consolidation in Victorian imperial romance, and forward through various adventure texts and media to the present day, this book probes and investigates the truisms and assumptions that underlie our generalisations about children’s love for adventure, and how they have evolved since the mid-nineteenth century.

Developmental Editing
Developmental Editing

Author: Scott Norton

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 022679363X

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"First published in 2009, Scott Norton's book is the only guide dedicated solely to the art of developmental editing. With more than three decades of experience in the field, Norton offers expert advice on how to approach the task of diagnosing and fixing structural problems with book manuscripts in consultation with authors and publishers. He illustrates these principles through a series of detailed case studies featuring before-and-after tables of contents, samples of edited text, and other materials to make an otherwise invisible process tangible. This revised edition includes a new chapter on editing fiction, which presents similar challenges to nonfiction plus a range of additional ones, including issues of premise, setting, plot, and character development. For the first time, the book comes with a set of exercises that allow readers to edit sample materials and compare their work with that of an experienced professional. And it includes new or expanded coverage of basic business arrangements for freelancers, self-publishing, e-books, and content marketing, among other topics. Aspiring and experienced developmental editors as well as the authors who work with them will find a wealth of insight in this new edition"--

Developmental Editing
Developmental Editing

Author: Scott Norton

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 022679377X

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The only guide dedicated solely to developmental editing, now revised and updated with new exercises and a chapter on fiction. Developmental editing—transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells—is a special skill, and Scott Norton is one of the best at it. With more than three decades of experience in the field, Norton offers his expert advice on how to approach the task of diagnosing and fixing structural problems with book manuscripts in consultation with authors and publishers. He illustrates these principles through a series of detailed case studies featuring before-and-after tables of contents, samples of edited text, and other materials to make an otherwise invisible process tangible. This revised edition for the first time includes exercises that allow readers to edit sample materials and compare their work with that of an experienced professional as well as a new chapter on the unique challenges of editing fiction. In addition, it features expanded coverage of freelance business arrangements, self-published authors, e-books, content marketing, and more. Whether you are an aspiring or experienced developmental editor or an author who works alongside one, you will benefit from Norton’s accessible, collaborative, and realistic approach and guidance. This handbook offers the concrete and essential tools it takes to help books to find their voice and their audience.

Feral
Feral

Author: George Monbiot

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-09-26

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 022620555X

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As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one to romanticize undisturbed, primal landscapes, but rather in his attempts to satisfy his cravings for a richer, more authentic life, he came stumbled into the world of restoration and rewilding. When these concepts were first introduced in 2011, very recently, they focused on releasing captive animals into the wild. Soon the definition expanded to describe the reintroduction of animal and plant species to habitats from which they had been excised. Some people began using it to mean the rehabilitation not just of particular species, but of entire ecosystems: a restoration of wilderness. Rewilding recognizes that nature consists not just of a collection of species but also of their ever-shifting relationships with each other and with the physical environment. Ecologists have shown how the dynamics within communities are affected by even the seemingly minor changes in species assemblages. Predators and large herbivores have transformed entire landscapes, from the nature of the soil to the flow of rivers, the chemistry of the oceans, and the composition of the atmosphere. The complexity of earth systems is seemingly boundless."

Breaking Normal
Breaking Normal

Author: Daniel Eisenman

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780999056417

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Over the past decade of creating epic personal development retreats, Daniel Eisenman has traveled around the world experiencing beautiful, exotic settings and amazing people. His one big observation is that so many people keep the lid on their growth and opportunities to thrive. This is a self-imposed limitation ... nobody tells us to do this! Daniel blows the lid off and gives you a retreat experience in a book. What's inside Breaking Normal: ReWild Your Inner Child and Set the Truth Free?*You'll get to feel what it means to be raw and vulnerable, excited and glowing with a sacred knowledge about your future. *You'll learn to communicate with others in a way that cuts through the limitations we used to let entangle us. *You'll have tools and insight for building your own tribe, be it your family or community or the world at large.

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Author: Pam Houston

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0393285499

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Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction "This is a book for all of us, right now." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how “to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief… to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.”

Forest Club
Forest Club

Author: Kris Hirschmann

Publisher: words & pictures

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1786038811

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It's time to rewild the child! This book of outdoor activities, crafts, nature information, and inspiration ties into the burgeoning interest in forest schools and "rewilding the child," with the aim of reconnecting children to nature and the outdoors. The book is divided by season, providing a year-round resource for families. While all crafts and activities are designed to be carried out outside, these are interspersed with factual pages about forest flora and fauna, which can be enjoyed at home or used as a field guide while out and about. A beautifully illustrated and informative title to spark children’s imagination and free-thinking. With forest school-themed crafts and activities for all seasons, outdoor exploration can be enjoyed twelve months of the year, always with something new to see.