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Go Play Outside!

Tips, Tricks, and Tales from the Trails

Nancy Fresco

University of Alaska Press, 2021

Having children doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy every season in the great outdoors—even if you happen to live in the middle of Alaska. Whether you’re biking eighty miles into the heart of Denali National Park, cross-country skiing to a remote cabin, or merely enjoying the mud on the banks of the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks, fun for all ages abounds, with a little preparation and the right mindset. Using a deft mixture of storytelling and practical pointers, this guidebook offers advice and encouragement to families—those who live in Alaska, as well as those in less extreme climates and locales.
 
Organized by the age of the young adventures, from days-old infants to independent teens, each section invites readers to learn from the humorous real-life adventures and misadventures of the author, her husband, and their twin girls. Weaving in the kids’ advice in their own words, this guide covers challenges ranging from unexpected hailstorms to very-much-expected mosquitoes. Tips include everything from how to avoid moose, to how to get out in the rain, to the benefits of setting big kids free to explore. This family’s enthusiastic, joyful, and often hilarious tales offer the impetus and the tools to encourage new parents—or more experienced parents, or anyone who loves kids —to go play outside.
 
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Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins

Tales and Tips from Growing Up in the ’50s and ’60s

Susan Sanvidge

Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010

“In the fifties, sleek Mixmasters were replacing rusty eggbeaters, and new pressure-cookers blew their tops in kitchens all over town. There were kids everywhere, and new ‘ranch-style’ houses filled vacant lots. . . . Turquoise Studebakers and dusty-rose Chevy BelAirs with flamboyant fins and lots of chrome replaced dark pre-war cars. Cameras took color snapshots instead of black-and-white. We wore red canvas tennis shoes and lemon yellow shorts, and bright blue popsicles melted down our chins.” —from the Introduction

In Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins, the four Sanvidge sisters, whose birthdates span the Baby Boomer period, present a lively chronicle of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in a small midwestern town. Each sister writes about the facets of her childhood she remembers best, and their lighthearted stories are illustrated with period photos. Sprinkled with mentions of pedal pushers, home permanents, and “two-tone” cars; early TV shows and the first rock and roll; hula hoops, Tiny Tears, and Mr. Potato Head (played with a real potato); and memories of their grandparents who lived nearby, Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins also features “how-tos” for re-creating the fads, foods, crafts, and games the Sanvidge sisters recall in their stories.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games for Neurodivergent Players

Tips and Tales

Maxwell, Lucas

University of Iowa Press, 2027

From Dimension 20 fandom to homebrewed campaigns, the game of Dungeons & Dragons offers neurodivergent players a space to create and celebrate new systems of thinking, connect with others, and have fun. The Beginner’s Guide to Tabletop Role­ playing Games for Neurodivergent Players is for anyone—neurodivergent or neuro­typical—who has ever wanted to give D&D a try but felt overwhelmed by its scope. Combining research, resources, testimonials, and interviews with experts, Lucas Maxwell illuminates the bridge between Dungeons & Dragons and those who seek to play it. Maxwell even provides two one-shot adventures and everything you need to play them, whether in the classroom, a club, or at home.

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Tips to Help You Do Your Best

Mike Carlson

Tupelo Press, 2025

A record of a poet’s wrestling with how to live and what to do; a provisional manual exploring how to be a better teacher, father, husband, poet, sibling, friend, and son. 

Written over a fifteen-year period, a period in which events and politics seemed to defy reason, the poems collected in Tips to Help You Do Your Best seek an imaginative wisdom on the outskirts of conventional thinking. By writing obsessively about the landscape, the objects that litter it, and the people he finds loitering there, Mike Carlson arrives at the emotional truth of his experience, mapping the distance between irreverence and irony, cowardice, and courage, condolences and pure clear words. 

In doing so, he also lays out a theory of poetry, a philosophical, aesthetic, and spiritual treatise that values object matter over subject matter. These poems approach understanding by image and rhythm, by light and shadow, and by means of encountering motorcycles and mushrooms and silos. While these poems often assume the authoritative and axiomatic tone of a guide book or set of instructions, they are at odds with easy explanation and drudgery.
 
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Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Care for Antiques, Collectibles, and Other Treasures

Georgia Kemp Caraway

University of North Texas Press, 2012

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