1KHO 122: Nature Gives Once in a Lifetime Experiences in Ordinary Settings | Susie Spikol, The Animal Adventurer's Guide

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

I LOVE Susie Spikol and I love her book The Animal Adventurers Guide. Susie opens our hearts to what is amazing, magical, enchanting, charming, and incredible about the everyday. She gently reminds us that we often overlook the wonder of the local animals around us and she teaches us how to re-look at the outdoors through beginner eyes. Susie's book reminded me that even when our adventures don't seem all that adventurous, they can still be touchstone's in our family stories. As a naturalist, writer, and lifespan environmental educator for over 30 years, Susie knows the tried-and-true nature activities that kids and families love! This episode is all about the practical because the majority of our 1000 Hours Outside journeys will be spent close to home and with Susie's reminders we can fall in love with the world that is right around us. Learn more about Susie Spikol here >> https://susiespikol.com/ Purchase your copy of The Animal Adventurers Guide here >> https://amzn.to/3lAZ4pv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here we go. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Jenny Yerich. I am the
0:06.6	founder of 1000 Hours Outside. I'm sitting across from a new friend today. We tried
0:11.9	to hug each other through the screen.
0:13.6	Susie Spickle, welcome!
0:15.6	Hi, it's such a pleasure to be here. I am such a huge fan of a thousand hours
0:21.2	outside. It speaks to my heart so much and I feel so lucky to be on this
0:27.0	podcast so thank you. Oh it's so thrilled to have you. I recently read your new book the Animal Adventures Guide how to prowl for an owl
0:36.8	make snail slime and catch a frog bare-handed 50 activities to get wild with
0:42.0	animals and this is a delightful book.
0:45.0	Susie congratulations illustrated by Becca Hall.
0:49.0	You two came together and made something that is so great for kids and families. I love it. Huge
0:54.7	Congrats to you. Thank you. I like to tell people it's not really a book for
0:58.8	reading, it's really a book for doing. And I was so fortunate that Becca Hall did the illustration. She just is so
1:05.8	delightful in her illustrations. They're kind of whimsical and charming and inviting.
1:10.7	So yeah. It is very inviting. I love the book. Let me read a little bit about you.
1:15.2	Ever since she can remember naturalist and writer Susie Spickle has always been
1:19.7	thrilled by the sight of any wild animal, whether it was the fireflies that lit up her childhood
1:24.1	home in Brooklyn or holding a woolly bear caterpillar with her youngest child,
1:27.8	Susie's life work has been helping people of all ages find ways to notice and connect with the wild creatures of our everyday
1:35.4	world. You have a 30-year career as a naturalist where you've taught thousands of
1:40.3	children, parents, and teachers and given hundreds of public talks at Nature Center,
1:44.9	schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and conferences.
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