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The antidote to the culture of 'cotton wool kids'
We've featured the work of Daniel Raven-Ellison in the past.
We're pleased to publicise his latest project Mission:Explore. In their own words:IT’S TIME TO EXPLORE! 102 missions that challenge kids to (re)discover our world. Kids of any age can become guerrilla explorers and extreme missioners with missions that defy gravity, see the invisible and test mental agility.
Mission:Explore is an interactive book created by the wonderful Geography Collective in an ongoing project to further inspire enthusiasm and an inquisitiveness in young people about the people and places around them. Completing each mission will help kids develop new skills, resourcefulness and discover how their natural curiosity and initiative can lead to exciting and edifying experiences. It is geography, but not as you know it.
Mission:Explore encourages young people to get actively involved with their communities. Rather than receive royalties, The Geography Collective will donate copies of Mission:Explore to children who cannot afford their own throughout the country.
Until April 11 (the end of Outdoor Adventure Week) if anyone buys 2 copies directly from them they will give a 3rd to a child who can't afford their own.
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March 30th, 2010 at 2:04 pm (#)
Yay! This is such a brilliant book, thanks for featuring it.
March 30th, 2010 at 2:25 pm (#)
This book looks amazing – perfect for the Easter holidays.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:53 pm (#)
Fabulous – let's get those kids out on the streets, over hill, over dale, through bush, through briar, over park, over pale, through blood, through fire, let's get those kids to wander everywhere,