Roughing It (Penguin Classics: American Library) by Mark Twain Patricia Wynne and what we can do

and what we can do to help in this adorable kids' book

kick off your shoes and forage for seaweed

A CBC-NSTA Best STEM Book of the Year

The assorted set of evergreen notecards are blank on the inside with charming watercolor illustrations of a chickadee

the dark browns and burnt oranges of the cave contrasting with the bright greens and blues of aboveground

Roughing It (Penguin Classics: American Library) by Mark Twain Patricia Wynne and what we can doA marvelously vivid, many sided portrait of America's frontier days. Mark Twain's rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860's. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timber and mining stocks, sailed to Hawaii, and worked for a succession of small newspapers. In Roughing It, his fictionalized account of these years, tall tales abound, as do sketches of unforgettable characters: desperadoes, vigilantes, newspapermen,