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Birchbark brigade : a fur trade history
The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. It influenced every aspect of life, from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, and how our nation formed.
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Create an eco-kid Recommended reading may inspire earthly awe in children
In observance of Earth Day, many parents are searching for the right way to teach their children about the environment. One of the best ways is through books and reading, says Cris Peterson, whose nationally syndicated column, Huckleberry Bookshelf, reviews children's books. In a piece written for Earth Day (observed Sunday in Chicago, Thursday many other places), Peterson highlights some of her favorite children's books about the Earth and the environment. When we think about introducing our kids to Earth Day and environmental issues, most of us are drawn to the depressing crisis headlines: acid rain, global warming, deforestation, landfill pollution. But if our kids are to care about these complex problems, they need first to discover the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Families can experience a new kind of Earth Day by nurturing a love of nature, a passion for discovery, a curiosity about the tiniest creatures. Using ideas from the award-winning book \"Teaching Kids to Love the Earth\" by Herman, Passineau, Schimpf and Treuer (Pfeifer-Hamilton, $14.95), we can foster a love and respect for the natural world that reaches beyond the usual activities associated with Earth Day.
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Clarabelle : making milk and so much more
Describes what life is like for dairy cows on a Wisconsin farm, telling how they are milked, what they eat, and what they produce besides milk.
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DEPRESSION-ERA SUBSIDY PROGRAMS NO HELP TO TODAY'S DAIRY FARMERS
Now that the MILC program has expired, we need to take a good hard look at the outdated dairy policies that keep our industry from reaching its potential. Efforts to resurrect the program continue, but instead of watching the mailbox for the next government check, we need to grow our farms and our industry. To do that, we need policies that allow us to operate our farms like businesses that encourage innovation, modernization and efficiency. U.S. dairy policy dates back to the Great Depression, when our nation and the world were very different places. The world is going to leave the U.S. dairy industry behind if we remain saddled with policies written for our grandparents and great-grandparents. It is time to look to the future if we want to have dairy farms to pass along to our children and grandchildren.
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Seed, soil, sun : Earth's recipe for food
Introduces the subject of agriculture, discussing how plants germinate, grow and produce food, and the composition of soil and the creatures who live in it.
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Best of '94 novels for kids span centuries, continents, emotions
Thirteen-year-old Sal tells her own story about traveling with her tottery grandparents to find her long-lost mother. During the journey, Gram and Gramps encourage her to tell about her new friend Phoebe, whose sad and mysterious life contains many parallels to Sal's. \"The Ramsay Scallop\" by Frances Temple (Orchard, $17.95) centers around Elenor, a young noblewoman, and Thomas, her cynical and embittered betrothed who has recently returned from the Crusades. Young Catherine, called Birdy because she loves animals and has caged birds in her room, keeps a diary of the year 1290. Her unflinching observations of life in the Middle Ages are filled with humor and amazing detail.
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Aviation books get children flying into reading
\"Lindbergh\" by Chris L. Demarest (Crown, $15) effectively re-creates Charles Lindbergh's early life in rural Minnesota and his fascination for America's newfangled flying machines. \"Fly! A Brief History of Flight Illustrated\" by Barry Moser (HarperCollins, $16) combines a brief encyclopedia of flying machines with vivid watercolor pictures. The airplane is the first major invention to be fully documented by photography. A recent Newbery Honor book, \"The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane\" by Russell Freedman (Holiday, $16.95), is filled with original photos taken by Orville and Wilbur themselves.
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Create an eco-kid
I hate recycling. A hailstorm of aluminum cans litters our basement floor. The pick-up/smash-the-cans routine is another of those kid jobs like making the beds and hauling the trash that turns me into a nagging tyrant. It's a messy, slow.
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HUCKLEBERRY BOOKSHELF
IT'S NOW THE third day of spring, and I figure I already have packed nearly 400 lunches this year for our three kids. I am sick of packing bag lunches. How many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches can a kid eat? We should have invested in the snack cake and fruit leather manufacturers. We'd be rich. \"The Lunch Book and Bag,\" by Kinny Kreiswirth and Jolene Bodily (Tambourine, $12.95), focuses on a nutritional approach to launching a lunch. The book is packed with \"fit tips\" on finding whole grains, exercising and reducing fat intake. The color-coded shopping guide helps kids choose foods for health and a nylon lunch bag included in the package totes the goods in style. For ages 8-12.
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HUCKLEBERRY BOOKSHELF
I'M CONFUSED by the library's non-fiction section. The Dewey Decimal System makes my brain buzz. I often can't find what I'm looking for, and I'm too lazy to check the card catalog. It's worth attacking Dewey Decimal, whoever he is, to find good non-fiction books. You don't have to read make-believe to entrance children. By their very natures they're information sponges.
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