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Sticks and Stones: A Kid's Guide to Building and Exploring in the Great Outdoors

by Melissa Lennig

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"Written by a top mom blogger, Sticks and Stones gives boys, girls, and their adults ideas for getting outside and creating safe, useful structures and objects using nature's building supplies"--

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Languages: English
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Published: 2019
Genres: Nonfiction, Children's Books
DDC/MDS: 796.5083
LCC: GV191.63 .L466

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