Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature and Survival for Children

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Summary: You, and your kids, can learn to pay attention to nature.
Review: An excellent resource for parents, teachers, etc. I even found many of the suggestions useful for myself and other adult friends. I used many of the exercises with 3rd through 6th graders as a Girl Scout leader.

Be surprised at how little of the natural world you appreciate on a daily basis. Learn to really see and hear.

Also good for general awareness building and personal security issues for kids in urban environments. A good read.

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Summary: hope-inspiring
Review: finally, a good reason to have kids. this is everything y'd expect from tom brown, excellent..

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Summary: I like it
Review: I present Stone Age technology in school programs. I find Brown's information quite useful.

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Summary: Unique and inspiring
Review: This book can be useful to people of any religion. As a Christian, I was not offended, although I agree that the author definitely does not share my spiritual beliefs. We can all benefit from connecting to nature and developing a greater level of understanding/awareness/respect of the beauty that surrounds us... especially as children. Do not pass by this wonderful book because of a religious bias. Remove the wheat from the chaff, absorb the good information and ignore the rest.

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Summary: Not for Christians
Review: You'll probably love the book if you are not an evangelical or charasmatic Christian. For those of us that are conservative Christians, however, it's too bad that Brown just can't help but include such gems as "peace, love, joy and a higher purpose...can only be found within ourselves" (They're a gift of the Holy Spirit and absolutely cannot be found within ourselves.) and "Refer frequently to water as earth mother's blood." ("Earth mother" is a diety worshipped by various cults.) That's just two that I found right now. When we first opened this book, it seemed there was something on every other page that was in contradiction to the Bible. Basically, Brown worships the creation rather than the Creator.