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2011 National Trust / Hay Festival Outdoors Book of the Year --National Trust / Hay Festival
A kid's classic! Attempting to travel with a wriggly child? Buy a copy of Mission:Explore, a book of 102 spy-style tasks and assignments, such as How far can you travel while sucking the same mint? and Make a map revealing local cat routes. It s like bringing along a nanny with endless patience and a James Bond fixation. Gadget geeks of all ages will love the accompanying free iPhone app. --Sunday Times Travel Magazine
--Sunday Times Travel Magazine
Designed to be read, scribbled on, illustrated, smeared, scratched and sniffed, it may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published. --Geographical Magazine
Mission:Explore is bold, cool, exciting, innovative, geographic, educational…and just plain fun! Every curious kid, budding geographer, and responsible parent should have a copy! --National Geographic Education
Designed to be read, scribbled on, illustrated, smeared, scratched and sniffed, it may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published. --National Geographic & Geographical Magazine
A kid's classic! Attempting to travel with a wriggly child? Buy a copy of Mission:Explore, a book of 102 spy-style tasks and assignments, such as How far can you travel while sucking the same mint? and Make a map revealing local cat routes. It s like bringing along a nanny with endless patience and a James Bond fixation. Gadget geeks of all ages will love the accompanying free iPhone app. --Sunday Times Travel Magazine
--Sunday Times Travel Magazine
Designed to be read, scribbled on, illustrated, smeared, scratched and sniffed, it may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published. --Geographical Magazine
Mission:Explore is bold, cool, exciting, innovative, geographic, educational…and just plain fun! Every curious kid, budding geographer, and responsible parent should have a copy! --National Geographic Education
Designed to be read, scribbled on, illustrated, smeared, scratched and sniffed, it may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published. --National Geographic & Geographical Magazine
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National Trust / Hay Festival Outdoors Book of the Year 2011. It's Time to Explore! 102 missions that challenge you to (re)discover our world. Become a guerilla explorer and extreme missioner with missions that defy gravity, see the invisible and test your mental agility. Each illustrated mission will challenge you in daring new ways. Draw, rub, smear, write, scrape, and print your findings and achievements as you complete each mission. Look inside... if you dare!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is not for the faint-hearted. It is full of challenging missions that will test all previously held assumptions about geography and take you into unexplored territory, possibly in your mind, rather than in your local neighbourhood.
I thought the book was very witty, well-written and full of original ideas to get children over 10 yrs of age out exploring. My own 13 yr old son thought some of the missions were very challenging and better for teenagers older than himself. He sat on the sofa chuckling away for a full half an hour reading the book. He's not especially keen on reading, so that says a lot about the layout and attractiveness of the book. It's pocket-sized and handy for taking out and about.
If you are a teacher looking for activities that dovetail nicely into your Geography curriculum, you will be disappointed. If you are looking for some doorstep ideas to liven up looking at maps and getting children to take an active interest in what's happening in the world around them, then this is a good book to buy. Some of the suggestions may even make your homework list.This book would definitely suit home-educated children.
What I also liked was the opportunity is to preview quite a bit of the book on the Mission Explore website and on their YouTube video. So I knew what I was buying. My favourite missions are:
- Seeing how far I can walk whilst sucking a mint.
- Getting some OAPs to hang out in hoodies on the street
- Leaving a chair in a park and watching to see what people do.
I thought the book was very witty, well-written and full of original ideas to get children over 10 yrs of age out exploring. My own 13 yr old son thought some of the missions were very challenging and better for teenagers older than himself. He sat on the sofa chuckling away for a full half an hour reading the book. He's not especially keen on reading, so that says a lot about the layout and attractiveness of the book. It's pocket-sized and handy for taking out and about.
If you are a teacher looking for activities that dovetail nicely into your Geography curriculum, you will be disappointed. If you are looking for some doorstep ideas to liven up looking at maps and getting children to take an active interest in what's happening in the world around them, then this is a good book to buy. Some of the suggestions may even make your homework list.This book would definitely suit home-educated children.
What I also liked was the opportunity is to preview quite a bit of the book on the Mission Explore website and on their YouTube video. So I knew what I was buying. My favourite missions are:
- Seeing how far I can walk whilst sucking a mint.
- Getting some OAPs to hang out in hoodies on the street
- Leaving a chair in a park and watching to see what people do.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love this book! It begins with a checklist for 102 missions that take you into the city to explore it in unexpected ways. My nephew just turned 6 and I decided to wait for his 7th birthday to send the book as some of the missions might be a little much for him.
I love how the book invites you to write in it, stick things in the pages and generally destroy it during he course of your explorations.
Aside from its practical coolness factor, the book is hilarious to read and a great thing to have on the shelf as a "hey check this out" item when you have company over.
Worth getting!
I love how the book invites you to write in it, stick things in the pages and generally destroy it during he course of your explorations.
Aside from its practical coolness factor, the book is hilarious to read and a great thing to have on the shelf as a "hey check this out" item when you have company over.
Worth getting!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Mission Explore is ace and just the kind of book I would have worshipped as a kid. The illustrations are brilliant and the missions are really fun and kooky. A great way of getting kids outside exploring and having adventures! :-)
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You'd think books couldn't be reinvented - but Mission:Explore offers a unique chance to turn readers into adventurers. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Eco bunny
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My 9 year old daughter loves this book. A fun inspiration to get out and do more. Looking forward to purchasing the 'camping' one. Read more
Published 13 months ago by che1970
Fantastic fun for ALL!
Sooo perfect for getting the children and their families involved! I have family child care, and we loVe going out and doing these missions :) I have referred sooo many to this... Read more
Published 13 months ago by laura Stadtfeld
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Buy this book right away... great for kids, but even better for adults and parents!
Published 21 months ago by Gus Larder
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