Kids Love Kentucky: A Parent's Guide to Exploring Fun Places in Kentucky with Children...Year Round!

by Michele Zavatsky and George Zavatsky

Book Overview

The newest updated and enhanced edition to the best-selling series of kid-tested family travel guides. Great ideas for family day trips and mini-vacations...easily planned, even on a budget. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966345754
• ISBN13: 9780966345759
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Kids Love Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Great for Kentucky families

I purchased this book after checking it out at the library. Living in Central Kentucky with two young boys, I expect that this book will be a resource that we'll use for years to come. I especially like having someone else's opinion on the "kid friendliness" of a place and knowing ahead of time specifically what they have to offer.

A MUST HAVE PARENT'S TRAVEL RESOURCE!

Parenting can be so frustrating ... especially when your kids seem bored and are begging for creative ideas on something fun to do. Most of the time you end up at the local playground or amusement center for lack of better ideas. "Entertaining children shouldn't be so hard. We wanted to make having fun family time easy. So, we researched and wrote this book" say parents/authors George and Michele Zavatsky. After 1000 hours of research and publishing, the result is their book, KIDS LOVE KENTUCKY. This book is part of a regional best-selling series including other titles for Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. KIDS LOVE KENTUCKY has kid-tested descriptions including great hints on what kids like best. This guide contains almost 200 pages packed full of 500 some places and events specifically designed for children between the ages of 2 - 15. Kids can discover places from Boone to Burgoo, from Caves to Corvettes, and from Lincoln to Lands of Horses. It'll tell you how Appalacian and Pioneer folks live(d) and even how to pow-wow with Native Americans. You'll know where to go to stand side-by-side a Braille printer (and even get to try your hand at it), steer a boat, blow the whistle of a train, or learn the secrets of yummy chocolates. Another weekend you'll have all the travel details you need to go behind the scenes of car assembly or learn the secrets to perfect pottery and woven linens (Secret: it takes loads of practice!). Of course, there's plenty of details on nationally known sites like skipping stones in creeks near Abe Lincoln's Boyhood Homes or purchasing a raccoon "Boone" cap and pretending to provide for your family while trying to keep peace with the Natives. There's lots of kid-friendly info on famous caves (even one you take a boat ride through!), singing a tune at My Old Kentucky Home and gazing at beautiful horses. Getting back to nature is easy when you stay overnight in a wigwam, get inches away from a real shark, pet wallabies and kangaroos, see a prehistoric alligator turtle, hear the roar of humungous cascading falls, stroll through a bird paradise, or walk across a Natural Bridge. If you're hungry, KIDS LOVE KENTUCKY knows where to dine on "hot browns", be a candy taste-tester, watch soft drinks mixed and bottled, and tell you how to eat your way through apple, barbecue, chicken, pumpkin, and sorghum festivals. Unusual theme restaurants include a log cabin, a real stagecoach stop or a riverboat. The book is formatted in 6 geographical zones providing addresses, websites, telephone numbers, directions, admissions and descriptions to save you lots of time. It's a wonderful resource to make short vacation plans or to get to know your hometown area better. You will probably find there are at least 50 things to do within an hour of your home! Best of all, if you have a limited budget, the book has found lots of places to visit for little or no charge and a bonus chapter of inexpensive