How To Be An Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum

How to be an Explorer of the World, Portable Life Museum--------------------------------------------------"From the author of ""Wreck This Journal,"" an interactive guide for exploring"and documenting the art and science of everyday life. Artists andscientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways,by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. Inthis captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to exploretheir world as both artists and scientists. The mission Smithproposes? ?To document and observe the world around you. As if you?venever seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels.Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thingat a time. Record what you are drawn to.? With a series of interactiveprompts and a beautifully hand-illustrated two-color package, readerswill enjoy exploring and discovering the world through this gorgeousbook.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Keri Smith is a bestselling author, illustrator,and thinker. Her books demonstrate a 'learn by doing approach', andare being used in school curriculums all over the world as a way offostering non-traditional methods of exploration. She also teachesand conducts workshops based on her non-traditional techniques across" North America. Her books include: "" Wreck This Journal, How to Be an"Explorer of the World, This is Not a Book, Mess - A Manual of Accidents" and Mistakes, Finish This Book, "" and ""Pocket Scavenger."" She enjoys"spending time with her husband, experimental musician Jefferson Pitcher,and two children Tilden and Ida.