June 6, 2017 • Page 12 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com The Bookworm ... For Kids ‘Out Of School’ Offers A Fun Guide To The Outdoors “Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story” by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Jessica Lanan; © 2017, Sleeping Bear Press. 32 pages ——— BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER What will you do when school is out for the summer? Will you hang around at home, playing every video game ever made? Maybe you’d rather go to summer camp. How about a family vacation, a trip to see Grandma, hiking, swimming? Or will you tromp around outside, as in the new book “Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story” by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Jessica Lanan? Almost from the day she was born, Anna craved the outdoors. She wanted to feel it in her hands. She wanted to touch it with her toes, and was almost always barefooted. She wanted to know all about frogs and toads and trees and water. She studied, watched, and “discovered nature’s secrets.” Anna’s mother encouraged a love of nature by teaching Anna about the wildflowers in the meadow and the stars in the night sky. Anna’s appreciation of nature grew until she knew she wanted to go to college to study the subject, but there was one problem: at the time when she was a young woman, girls weren’t supposed to go to college. They were “supposed to get married after high school,” but Anna headed for college anyhow, where she studied insects and plants, and she began drawing them to better share what she’d learned. Her professors were impressed! They started using her artwork in their classes, and farmers found her drawings most helpful in identifying bugs on their farms. Soon, Anna was known as an expert in nature. One day, though, she learned something that shocked her: many small schools didn’t teach their students anything about the outdoors! Knowing that had to be fixed, she began “teaching the teachers … and wrote lessons about nature’s marvelous mysteries.” She encouraged teachers to take their students outside to learn, so that the children might hold nature in their hands and feel it with their feet. And with that, as Anna noted, the children “wanted to learn more.” Your grade-schooler has a whole summer stretching ahead of her. She’s dreaming of the fun she’ll have indoors, so now’s the time to spur her interest in the outdoors by giving her “Out of School and Into Nature.” Starting with nature expert Anna Comstock’s early childhood, author Suzanne Slade and artist Jessica Lanan vividly portray life in the mid-1800s, when kids could openly explore the outdoors with few restrictions. From there, Slade moves on to Comstock’s reach for an education and a career, with emphasis on the difficulties Comstock faced and with a subtle empowerment message for girls. Lastly, be sure you spend a few minutes with the books’ last pages: there, Slade offers “More About Anna,” where children and parents can truly dig into the life of this remarkable woman. This is a great book for 6- to 10-year-old couch potatoes, or for kids who may anticipate a season spent in the country. For them, or for a child who’s been assigned a book before classes start again, “Out of School and Into Nature” is a fine summer read. Bowfishing Your Gear, Right Here! Get Hooked! All NEW Addict Fish Hook Arrow Rest Bowfishing Kit $ 1500 249 $ Full Metal Jacket Bofishing Arrow 99 Retriever Reel •Full Metal Jacketed Fiberglass •Mayhem double barbed steel point with heat treated cyclone tip •Easy shaft-rotate barb release $ 8999 34 $ 99 Complete Ready-To-Fish Bowfishing Packages Tipped Fish Arrows With Slider Sets XD Pro Bowfishing Reel Mission Menace $ Polarized Glasses for Bowfishing starting at Cajun Sucker Punch 39999 79 $ 19 $ 99 99 15 $ 99 New Hoyt Klash “…I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.” ~Thomas Jefferson ,1785 August 19 Winchester & Federal Target System 12ga. & 20ga. Large 135 Count Box $ 13 99 Target Ammo $ 79 $ 6 Box READY SET GRILL 64 Buy stand, get target free! 99 Case “Made in the USA and that’s the way it’s gonna stay!” LG 700 70000 $ $ 19 99 Single Barrel Trap Gun $ 59999 LG 900 LG 1100 80000 $ $ 90000 We carry a wide range of accessories to enhance all your grilling and smoking needs. For the front, back, inside or out we know you’ll be the star of the show! Premium Hardwood Pellets 100% All Natural Flavor 29 $ 99 2-Bags or 40# Bag $50 Gourmet BBQ Spices and Rubs “Where the Buck Stops and the Hunter Shops!” Dakota Archery & Outdoor Sports 2305 E. Hwy. 50 • Yankton, SD • 605-665-8340 Open Every Night Till 9 p.m.