Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature for Kids of all Ages and their Mentors

Connection, Awareness, Belonging. For children and adults alike, Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature sparks the excitement of discovery, real connection with animals and plants, and a sense of belonging through knowing our place on the planet. With this manual in one hand and someone we care about in the other, Coyote inspires us to follow curiosity s magic. Coyote's Guide lifts the lid off the mind of a mentor to reveal how you can design invisible learning experiences. Offering dozens of activities, stories, and games, so mentors, educators, and parents can lead in ways that fit your people, your place, and your plans. Coyote's Guide sets fresh standards for environmental literacy that engages body, mind and spirit.

This is good medicine for nature-defict disorder. Coyote's Guide should become an essential resource for anyone who want to revive their sense of kinship with nature but needs some help ... Richard Louv, author of national bestseller Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, and chairman of the Children and Nature Network. --Richard Louv, author of national bestseller Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, and chairman of the Children and Nature Network.

The nature activities in Coyote's Guide are fantastic; I cannot wait to try them. This book has the power to change lives. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to share nature with others. Joseph Cornell, internationally renowned educator and author of Sharing Nature with Children and founder of the Sharing Nature Foundation. --Joseph Cornell, internationally renowned educator and author of Sharing Nature with Children and founder of the Sharing Nature Foundation.

Coyote s Guide is like an ice-cubed drink of fresh-squeezed lemonade after a sun-blasted hike through the desert. This is nature education as it should be mysterious, timeless, hopeful, evocative and playful. --David Sobel, author of Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education at Antioch University New England.