A Girl's Guide to the Wild

By Ruby McConnell, Teresa Grasseschi (Illustrator)

Empower girls to explore the outdoors with essential skills and inspiring stories.

3.9/5 Goodreads · 62 ratings

272 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Discover the ultimate guide for girls aged 9-12 to embrace the outdoors. This handbook offers camping tips, hiking basics, and fun projects, alongside stories of trailblazing women like Arunima Sinha and Juliette Gordon Low. Will these tales inspire a new generation of adventurers? Equip yourself with skills and confidence to explore nature's wonders.

From the publisher

Girls belong outdoors! This handbook covers everything you need to get outside, including ideas for what to do, camping and hiking basics, body stuff in the wilderness, advanced skills like maps, weather, and first aid, as well as recipes, projects, activities, and profiles of inspiring outdoorswomen. Your definitive guide to getting outside–for girls ages 9-12! In addition to basic outdoor skills, this entertaining guidebook includes easy camping recipes, outdoor projects including science experiments and crafts, fun activity suggestions, and inspiring stories of diverse historical and contemporary outdoorswomen (such as Arunima Sinha, an amputee mountain climber and first Indian woman to summit Mount Everest; Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts; and Libby Riddles, first woman to win the Iditarod). The goal is to improve the quality of girls’ outdoor time by increasing participation and independence, making them feel comfortable and safe, and giving them essential skills and knowledge. Charming and approachable, this book will encourage both reluctant campers and budding naturalists to go wild and embrace the outdoors.

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