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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book, or rather the text from Carson within it, is a well organized summary of how to introduce very young people to the natural world so that they will be interested in it. Once interested, they will continue to the nest step, learning the details, mechanisms and species and behaviors of its components, and the interdependency and value of the natural communities to both themselves and to people. (  ) billsearth | Dec 26, 2008 |  In 1956, Rachel Carson published an essay titled "Help Your Child Wonder." More than 50 years later this article is even more timely. Focusing on the important role that adults have in the lives of young children, the book combines the original article with new photographs. Carson relates experiences with her three-year old nephew to illustrate the need to help young people develop a passion for learning through inquiry, senses, and exploration of nature. This is a wonderful companion to Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. ( ) eduscapes | Nov 3, 2007 | The photo's are from the coastline of Maine. I call it: A 'year' of beautiful photographs of a boy and nature. Rachel Carson inteneded to expand "The Sense of Wonder" but time ran out before she could. RIP: 1907-1964 First copyright 1956 LadyIrene | Apr 3, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 006757520X, Hardcover)Not long before she died in 1964, the noted environmental writer Rachel Carson wrote an essay for Woman's Home Companion magazine called "Helping Your Child to Wonder." In that essay--reprinted here, with photographs of natural subjects by Nick Kelsh--Carson urged parents to take their children to wild places in order to introduce them to the astonishing variety of life that exists all around us: to study birds, listen to the winds, and observe the stars. Too much of the child's subsequent education, she warns, will be devoted to dimming that "clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring" with which children are born; it is the parent's task to be an adult guide who can in turn rediscover the "excitement and mystery of the world we live in." Carson's words are timely, and this beautifully illustrated edition makes a fine gift for new and prospective mothers and fathers. --Gregory McNamee(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:43:34 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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