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    Wild and Free Book Club: 28 Activities to Make Books Come Alive
    Wild and Free Book Club: 28 Activities to Make Books Come Alive
    Wild and Free Book Club: 28 Activities to Make Books Come Alive
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    Wild and Free Book Club: 28 Activities to Make Books Come Alive

    By Ainsley Arment

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    From Wild + Free, a wonderful collection of creative activities for parents, educators, and caregivers filled with engaging and fun ideas to help kids fall in love with literature and reading.

    Foster a love of reading in your child with Wild + Free Book Club. An invaluable educational resource curated by Wild + Free families around the world, this full-color illustrated book offers imaginative suggestions for creating themed book clubs for kids. Here are hands-on activities, games, food, and decoration ideas inspired by a carefully chosen list of beloved classic novels, as well as discussion questions about plots and themes that engage kids minds and sparks their curiosity.

    Wild + Free Book Club is filled with fun ideas for each book, including:

    • Anne of Green Gables—host a picnic tea party
    • The Secret Garden—craft a terrarium, a secret garden of your own
    • Charlotte’s Web—host an old-time country fair
    • The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe—turn your front door into a magical portal to Narnia

    With step-by-step instructions, lush photography, and family-tested and kid-approved activities, Wild + Free Book Club will help parents and educators inspire children and instill a lifelong passion for literature and the joy of books.

    The Wild + Free Book Club reading list:

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 

    Anne of Green Gables 

    Around the World in 80 Days 

    Black Beauty 

    Charlotte’s Web 

    The Crossover

    Esperanza Rising

    The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

    Farmer Boy 

    From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 

    The Green Ember 

    Heidi 

    The Hobbit 

    Island of the Blue Dolphins 

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 

    Little House in the Big Woods 

    A Little Princess

    Little Women 

    Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 

    My Side of the Mountain 

    Peter Pan 

    Pippi Longstocking

    Robin Hood 

    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

    The Secret Garden

    The Swiss Family Robinson 

    Treasure Island 

    The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 25, 2021
    ISBN9780063068254
    Wild and Free Book Club: 28 Activities to Make Books Come Alive
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    Ainsley Arment

    Ainsley Arment is the founder and leader of Wild + Free and co-host of the weekly Wild + Free Podcast. As she leads this movement of raising her kids and homeschooling in a new way, she thinks deeply about making the most out of life and ensuring that her children have a fertile seedbed for their own uniqueness and creativity. She and her husband Ben are raising their five kids, Wyatt, Dylan, Cody, Annie, and Millie, in Virginia Beach.

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