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Fun with the Family Oregon

Author : Sarah Pagliasotti

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 48,6 MB

Release : 2011-07-05

Category : Travel

ISBN : 0762769246

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Written by a parent for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family Oregon leads the way to amusement parks, historical attractions, children’s museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and much more. The whole family will enjoy . . . Donning your 10-gallon hats and cowboy boots (or baseball caps and sneakers) at the Pendleton Round-Up, one of America’s largest rodeos. Enjoying the tide pools (at low tide) around the base of 235-foot Haystack Rock near Cannon Beach, one of the world’s largest freestanding monoliths. Flying high at the sight of the fighter planes and blimps in the Tillamook Air Museum, the world’s largest clear-span wood building.



Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon

Author : Bonnie Henderson

Publisher : The Mountaineers Books

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 34,53 MB

Release : 2007-02-12

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 159485159X

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* More than 80 Oregon hikes for kids and adults, accessible from urban areas * Hikes range in length from less than a mile to nearly 6 miles, with optional turn-around points * Handy sidebars with information on animals, plants, geology, and fun activities for kids to do on the hike * Special emphasis on trail highlights with child appeal * Graphic, two-color layout provides key data at a glance Search for frogs and turtles in a pond, stay in a cabin, visit a nature center, see waterfalls, or discover abundant wildlife. These are just a few of the hikes in Best Hikes with Kids Oregon that families (and anyone looking for an easy outing) will enjoy. Each hike in this guidebook offers points of interest and opportunities for kids to learn about nature on the trail. The hikes are rated easy to difficult for children, and feature optional turn-around points for tired feet.



Grant's Getaways: Oregon Adventures with the Kids

Author : Grant McOmie

Publisher : Graphic Arts Books

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 14,83 MB

Release : 2017-09-05

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1513260472

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From the popular television Oregon travel series Grant’s Getaways comes the third book in Grant McOmie’s well-loved guidebooks. Oregon’s treasure Grant McOmie offers in this handy guidebook his favorite kid-friendly outings featured in his television series, Grant’s Getaways. You’ll find activities to engage any kid, from archery to clamming on the coast to hunting for thundereggs to zip-lining through trees in an aerial adventure park. Grant explored many of these outings as a child on family trips and later as a father with his own children. A big believer in teachable moments through touchable history, he’s expert in providing educational content that kids truly enjoy. This is a detailed reference book for outdoor adventures geared for family fun and activities.



50 Hikes with Kids

Author : Wendy Gorton

Publisher : Timber Press

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 23,16 MB

Release : 2018-04-03

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1604698004

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Winner of the 2018 National Outdoor Book Award, Children’s Category Handcrafted for Northwest parents, educators, and caregivers that want to spark a love of nature, 50 Hikes with Kids highlights the most kid-friendly hikes in Oregon and Washington. These hikes are perfect for little legs—they are all under four miles and have an elevation gain of 900 feet of less. Some are even accessible by stroller. Every entry includes the essential details: easy-to-read, trustworthy directions; a detailed map; hike length and elevation gain; bathroom access; and where to grab a bite to eat nearby. Full-color photographs highlight the fun things to see along the trail.



Larry Gets Lost in Seattle

Author : John Skewes

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 31,72 MB

Release : 2017-04-04

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1632170922

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Featuring all-new artwork and several new Seattle landmarks, this limited 10th anniversary edition of the best-selling Larry Gets Lost in Seattle finds Larry, the adorable pup, lost again! Pete and Larry, his adorable pooch, take a ferry to Seattle to visit the Emerald City. After being distracted by a tempting treat, Larry gets lost and tours the city trying to reunite with Pete. Along the way he discovers some of the city’s most fun and interesting landmarks and cultural attractions, including: * Seattle Central Library * Seattle Art Museum * Pike Place Market * Museum of History and Industry * The Olympic Sculpture Park * CenturyLink Field and Safeco Field * The Space Needle * EMP



Oregon Reads Aloud

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Publisher : Graphic Arts Books

Page : 103 pages

File Size : 16,8 MB

Release : 2016-10-04

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1943328978

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Oregon Reads Aloud is a collection of twenty-five read-aloud stories for children, written and illustrated by Oregon authors and illustrators. The twenty-five stories in Oregon Reads Aloud are a celebration of all things Oregon, including a great food cart feud, the dance of the Chapman Swifts, the creation of Oregon’s mountain ranges, and a legendary African American cowboy at the Pendleton Round-up. The book is a tribute to twenty-five years of SMART Reading’s work empowering Oregon children for reading and learning success. Oregon Reads Aloud proudly features the state’s rich trove of talent within the children’s literary community, including Eric A, Kimmel, Elizabeth Rusch, David Horn, Brian Parker, and Trudy Ludwig, among many others.



Hiking Southern Oregon

Author : Art Bernstein

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 487 pages

File Size : 20,50 MB

Release : 2014-08-05

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1493013378

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With over 90 hikes in the Southern Cascades and Siskiyou Mountain Range, this book is easily the most comprehensive guide available for Southern Oregon's diverse hiking opportunities. Explore the Mount Thielsen, Sky Lakes, Mountain Lakes, Red Buttes, and Wild Rogue Wilderness Areas, and much more. This guide also covers all trails in Crater Lake National Park. Complete with maps, elevation profiles, and clear, informative hike narratives, this book is bound to be the standard against which all other guides for the area are judged.



Unleashed in Oregon

Author : Sue Fagalde Lick

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 23,39 MB

Release : 2017-09-28

Category :

ISBN : 9781977712196

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What is a Californigonian? What was waiting by the door that night? What possessed us to adopt two puppies at once? How is playing the piano like ice skating? Why stay in Oregon when it rains all the time and the family is still back in California? Find the answers to these and other questions in these posts selected from ten years of the Unleashed in Oregon blog. Chapters will look at the glamorous life of a writer and the equally glamorous life of a musician, true stories from a whiny traveler, being the sole human occupant of a house in the woods, and dogs, so much about dogs.



A Heart for Any Fate

Author : Linda Crew

Publisher : Ooligan Press

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 44,1 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1932010262

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Lovisa King, 17, comes of age on the Oregon Trail and finds the strength to help her family survive a deadly shortcut on their journey to the Willamette Valley.



Bound for Oregon

Author : Jean Van Leeuwen

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 32,93 MB

Release : 1996-11-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0140383190

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"Basing her story on the published accounts of her true-life heroine, Mary Ellen Todd, Van Leeuwen describes a family's tumultuous journey along the Oregon Trail in 1852." --Publishers Weekly With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family sets out from their Arkansas home on a two thousand mile trek to claim unchartered Oregon Territory. Crossing rough terrain and encountering hostile people, the Todds show their true pioneering spirit. But as winter draws near, will the Todds have the strength to complete their journey? And if they make it, will Oregon fulfill their dreams? “This is a convincing picture of a pioneer journey that does a good job of showing the tremendous sacrifices people made to follow their dream of a better life.” –School Library Journal