Provides fifty-two outdoor activities for families to help engage children in discovering and learning about nature, including observing ants, tracing stars, and cultivating a garden.
The people, animals, and objects on the farm explain their relationship with the dirt, which is used and needed by all.
15 fun and fact-filled poems about soil--what makes it and who lives in it! This book unearths some of the glorious mysteries that lie beneath our feet!
Decades later, Bram Presser embarks on a quest to find the truth behind the stories his family built around these remarkable survivors. The Book of Dirt is a completely original novel about love, family secrets, and Jewish myths.
David Shannon. Roy's imaginary friend lives in the dirt, too. He plays with it and talks to it. Roy named his imaginary friend “Roy.” The only bad thing about dirt is ants. Roy does.
“Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.” She grinned, deliberately running one long finger along the frays in a hole in the thigh of her jeans. Hazard's gaze flickered to the patch of visible skin. When he came back to her face, she smiled.
Community farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. Nematodes. The world is waking up to the beauty and mystery of dirt.
This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France.
Things are hard for eleven-year-old Yonder. Her mother died and her father has sunk into sadness. She doesn't have a friend to her name . . . except for Dirt, the Shetland pony next door. Dirt has problems of his own.
In this award-winning story--now available in paperback--Fister Farnello runs away from home to avoid taking a bath and is befriended by Dirt Man, a filthy giant who lives in the woods.
"--Booklist "Our heroine has a positive outlook and doesn't let things get her down. The book demonstrates how even a young child can be a great entrepreneur.