The Children's Forest: Stories & Songs, Wild Food, Crafts & Celebrations All Year Round

Anna Richardson, Dawn Casey, Helen D'Ascoli

Book cover for The Children's Forest: Stories & Songs, Wild Food, Crafts & Celebrations All Year Round
Book cover for The Children's Forest: Stories & Songs, Wild Food, Crafts & Celebrations All Year Round

The Children's Forest: Stories & Songs, Wild Food, Crafts & Celebrations All Year Round

The Children's Forest: Stories & Songs, Wild Food, Crafts & Celebrations All Year Round

Anna Richardson, Dawn Casey, Helen D'Ascoli

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A rich and abundant treasury in celebration of the outdoors, The Children's Forest encourages children's natural fascination with the forest and its inhabitants. The authors have produced an enchanting book in which imagination, story, and play bring the world of the forest to vibrant life. Filled with games, facts, celebrations, craft activities, recipes, foraging, stories, and Forest School skills, this book is much more than a manual: it is an invitation.

The book is organized into the eight Celtic seasons of Imbolc, Spring, Beltane, Summer, Lughnasa, Autumn, Samhain, and Winter. Within each chapter are the following sections: The Life of the Forest; Plant Lore; Imaginary Journey; Tree Lore; Activities, crafts and games; Animals; Celebration. The appendices cover woodland skills, safety, the Ogham alphabet, story sources, and more resources.

Ideal for ages 5 to 12, The Children's Forest will also be enjoyed by adults, families, and younger children.

Dawn Casey is the author of such titles as A Lullaby for Little One and Earth Tales. Anna Richardson is a Forest School leader and Forest School trainer. Helen d'Ascoli is a Forest School teacher and a founder of a company dedicated to connecting people to nature.
"With this beautiful book--coauthored by Dawn Casey, Anna Richardson and Helen Ascoli--Hawthorn Press have scaled fresh heights in its vocation to put inspiring storytelling resources into our hands. There is naturally a practical aim at work in providing 'stories and songs, wild food, crafts and celebrations all year round.' But this achieved with visual and verbal excellence."----Donald Smith, Scottish International Storytelling Festival

"If you only have one handbook for outdoor learning and forest school on your bookshelf, them make sure it is this one!"----The Froebel Network

Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Pub date: 2019-12-03
Length: 336 pages

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