Toad Cottages and Shooting Stars: Grandma's Bag of Tricks

By Sharon Lovejoy

Book Overview

Make leaf rubbings, learn the neighborhood bird songs together, turn an aquarium into a worm hotel, create a firefly lantern. There are garden projects, both for the outdoors--grow a container snacking garden, a pumpkin patch in a pot--and the indoors, i.e., how to use something called "indoor garbage gardens" to grow pineapple tops, sweet potato vines, peanuts, and more. Cooking projects, both in the sunshine--baking in a solar oven--and in the kitchen--what child will ever forget the time the two of you made Potato Volcanoes with Lava? And lots of rainy-day activities for times when nature's in a cranky mood. Created by Sharon Lovejoy--a grandmother of four and the author of two classic books of garden activities for grown-ups and kids, Sunflower Houses and Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots -- Toad Cottages and Shooting Stars is an ecologically inspired guide that combines more than 130 green activities with timeless grandparenting advice. Illustrated with Lovejoy's distinctive, delicate watercolors, it's an inventive resource for grandmother and grandchild to connect with each other through nature. It is the book to make sure an afternoon, a day, or a weekend turns into a memory that lasts forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761150439
• ISBN13: 9780761150435
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Workman Pub Co
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Same book as one of her others - Camp Granny

The book is great! Full of fun, interesting and educational things to explore and observe with young kids! I was disappointed to discover that her book titled Camp Granny is the EXACT same book. In the description for that book, it does say it's a newly named copy of this book, though I missed that. The front cover is different, but the entirety of the inside is exactly the same. Yet they have different ISBN's. Not happy I spent extra money on identical books.

The Warmest Activity Book

I bought this book as a busy parent looking for sweet activities to do with my daughters. I come back to this book again and again. Simple, sweet, and wonderful ways to enjoy the outdoors together.