21 Best nonfiction books like The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures and Connect Kids to Nature by Helen Olsson

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The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures and Connect Kids to Nature

By: Helen Olsson

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The revised and updated edition of the bestselling guidebook that equips parents with all the confi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures and Connect Kids to Nature by Helen Olsson , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children

By: Angela J. Hanscom

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outd… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
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2. Summer People

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of suns… read more

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  • family
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3. Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

By: Jamie Glowacki

3.90

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

From potty-training expert and social worker Jamie Glowacki, who’s already helped over half a milli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
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4. All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

By: Jennifer Senior

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
"Children live life as a controlled experiment."

-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

"What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion"

-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

"The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want."

-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

"Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive."

-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

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5. Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

By: Kim John Payne , Lisa M. Ross

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Today's busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
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6. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

By: Susan Wise Bauer

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks With Charlotte Mason

By: Laurie Bestvater

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

"We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting

8. Fifteen Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids

By: None

3.95

Format: 145 pages,

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9. Shadows of the Workhouse

By: Jennifer Worth

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of E… read more

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10. The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids

By: Jessica Joelle Alexander , Iben Dissing Sandahl

4.50

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and what are the secrets of Danish parents fo… read more

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11. There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids

By: Linda Åkeson McGurk

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, … read more

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12. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

13. Esperanza Rising

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fan… read more

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14. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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15. Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)

By: Charlotte M. Mason

4.53

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Book by Mason, Charlotte M. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
"Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood."

-Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)

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16. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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17. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

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  • nonfiction
"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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18. The Matzah Ball

By: Jean Meltzer

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Oy! to the worldRachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves… read more

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19. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

By: Becky Kennedy

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
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20. Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

By: Hunter Clarke-Fields

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A k… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
"The only way out of our difficult feelings is through."

-Hunter Clarke-Fields, Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

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21. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

By: Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids by Jancee Dunn

22. How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

By: Jancee Dunn

4.08

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

"Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself" (People): a hilariously candid account of one wom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
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23. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

By: Greg McKeown

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism takes on the holy grail of human performance:… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What job have I hired this grudge to do?"

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

"There is no mastery without mistakes, and there is no learning later without the courage to be rubbish."

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

"Life doesn't have to be as hard and complicated as we make it. Each of us has -- as Robert Frost wrote -- "Promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep." No matter what challenges, obstacles or ha…"

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

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25. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

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26. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Layla F. Saad

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that the… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You do not have to be the loudest voice. But you do need to use your voice."

-Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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27. The Whole and Healthy Family: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Mind, Body, and Spirit

By: Jodi Mockabee

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

All parents want their children to thrive, but what does that actually look like? And what does it … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
Cover of How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent by Carla Naumburg

28. How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent

By: Carla Naumburg

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ever lose it with your kid? If so, you’re definitely not alone. Parenting is stressful, children ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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29. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

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"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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30. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)

By: Peter Liljedahl

4.57

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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31. The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures and Connect Kids to Nature

By: Helen Olsson

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The revised and updated edition of the bestselling guidebook that equips parents with all the confi… read more

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11 best-selling family books like The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures and Connect Kids to Nature by Helen Olsson

Transform Your Habits

Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children

Angela J. Hanscom

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Summer People

Elin Hilderbrand

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

Jamie Glowacki

3.90

Transform Your Habits

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Jennifer Senior

3.89

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14 Top adult books like Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Butts: A Backstory

Heather Radke

3.75

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