Family Book of The Day:
by Abigail Gehring
4.7 stars – 4,178 reviews
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Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Over 200,000 copies sold—fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.
Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide.
Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast-food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.
Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead.
More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers—even if you live in a city apartment, you will find your imagination sparked, and there’s no reason why you can’t, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available.
Today’s Book of The Day is sponsored by this week’s Kids’ eBook of The Week:
by DK
4.5 stars – 23 reviews
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What lies in the depths of Earth’s oceans? Find out in this fact-filled book on the sea, its creatures, plant life and many hidden mysteries.
Explore from shores and reefs to the freezing depths! Learn about fishing, shipwrecks, sea plants, coral reefs, ocean wildlife and so much more. This picture-packed guide dives into why the ocean is so important to life on Earth, and why we need to conserve it. Discover the interesting things ocean explorers have found on the seabeds of the world! Inside, you’ll find:– Up to 20% new images, including photography and updated diagrams.
– All information updated by an expert consultant.
– Packed with amazing facts, infographics, statistics and timelines.
– Includes brand new eyewitness accounts from experts in the field. Eyewitness Ocean introduces the world’s ocean through eye-catching color photographs, sequences of animal behavior and illustrations of how oceans work. This exciting ocean book also includes maps and incredible facts to show you everything about the sea’s ecosystem.
Curious children ages 9 and up will love paging and reading through this book on oceans. They’ll meet octopi and hermit crabs, encounter seaweed, find out how waves form, and discover the submarines and submersibles that have explored shipwrecks. Kids will also learn about prehistoric oceans, and how people are trying to protect the oceans of the future.
With a groundbreaking visual approach and clear, child-friendly text, the DK Eyewitness series has been a trusted favorite for parents, teachers and school-age children since 1985. Now with an exciting makeover, this popular series has been reinvigorated for the next generation of information-seekers – perfect for home learning! Other books in the series include Eyewitness Fish and Eyewitness Shark.
