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Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom

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Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom by Angela Ferraro-Fanning inspires children and families to embrace the autumn season with a delightful collection of recipes, crafts, and life wisdom. This beautifully illustrated book encourages creativity and learning through engaging activities that celebrate the magic and bounty of the autumn months. It's a perfect guide for spending cozy days together and enjoying the simple pleasures of fall.
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This charming book may appeal to you if you enjoy introducing children to the joys of seasonal change and creativity. It's filled with delightful autumn-inspired recipes, crafts, and nuggets of wisdom that foster a love for nature and encourage hands-on learning. Perfect for families who cherish bonding over fun, educational activities and want to instil these skills in young readers.

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An Autumn Treasury (Little Country Cottage) offers nature-based crafts, bakes and gardening projects in a celebration of self-sufficient, eco-friendly, country cottage-style life.

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This charmingly illustrated seasonal treasury of nature-based crafts, bakes and gardening projects for autumn celebrates the country cottage lifestyle with self-sufficient and eco-friendly fun. Locally printed on 100% recycled paper, An Autumn Treasury (Little Country Cottage) offers:

  • Easy yet delicious autumn recipes and treats that introduce young readers to local and seasonal eating. From pumpkin muffins to home-made apple chips, the easy-to-make recipes will inspire kids to get into the kitchen.
  • Suggestions for using up unloved parts of produce, such as ways to make use of apple cores and peel, demonstrate a naturally zero-waste way of living.
  • Accessible and fun crafts, such as making a gratitude tree and a woven basket, have instructions broken down into clear steps illustrated in AnneliesDraws' cute and wholesome style.
  • The seasonal gardening and growing projects, such as planting herbs, can be done in a big back yard or on a windowsill, making this eco-friendly activity book a fun resource, whether readers are based in towns or the country.

Woven alongside the cooking, crafting, and planting projects are little snippets of seasonal information and self-sufficient wisdom from homesteading teacher Angela Fanning of Axe and Root Homestead, with a focus on enjoying and celebrating the best of what autumn has to offer. Find even more nature-centered seasonal fun in: Little Country Cottage: A Winter Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom.

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  • Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom
    This charmingly illustrated seasonal treasury of nature-based crafts, bakes and gardening projects for autumn celebrates the country cottage lifestyle with self-sufficient and eco-friendly fun. Locally printed on 100% recycled paper, An Autumn Treasury (Little Country Cottage) offers: Easy yet delicious autumn recipes and treats that introduce young readers to local and seasonal eating. From pumpkin muffins to home-made apple chips,...
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    $2299
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    Ships in 4-6 weeks

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Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom by Angela Ferraro-Fanning is praised for being an excellent introduction to eco-conscious living, offering simple and engaging ideas suitable for children.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711266995

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Ivy Kids Eco

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by AnneliesDraws

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 1000g

Pages: 32

About the Author

AnneliesDraws is an artist based in the Netherlands. She charms her 280,000 followers on Instagram with heartwarming and inspirational messages illustrated with her adorable drawings.Angela Fanning is a self-taught first generation farmer who built Axe & Root Homestead, a six-acre farm in central New Jersey, USA. Originally a graphic and website designer by trade, she owned and operated her own design firm for over a decade. After the birth of her first child, she realised she wanted to be outdoors, aligning her life with the seasons and with nature. She now grows and preserves her own homegrown produce for her young family, and runs a farm bustling with Clydesdales, geese and ducks for eggs, an apiary with ten beehives, sheep and a small orchard. She shares this love for eco-conscious, self-sufficient living with others through her Instagram account @axeandroothomestead (61k followers), her online homesteading classes, and is a regular contributor to publications such as Countryside Magazine, and Backyard Beekeping and Backyard Poultry Magazines.

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