Let's Go Outside! - by Ben Lerwill (Hardcover)

About the Book

Let's go outside! Let's find a big, sploshy puddle! Let's run as fast as our legs can carry us!. The great outdoors is waiting, ready to be filled with excitement and imagination. Join a group of friends as they play together throughout the year in this joyful exploration of spending time outside every day. Explore the fun that can be had outdoors in all weather and count how many children have gone outside to play in this celebration imaginative play and the simple pleasure of spending time outside everyday... and cozying up indoors at the end of the day

Book Synopsis

"Inclusive entreaties to engage with nature pair with lush, page-filling depictions of children frolicking throughout landscapes and seasons in this irresistible call to 'go outside!'" -Publishers Weekly

Let's go outside!
Let's find a big, sploshy puddle!
Let's run as fast as our legs can carry us!.

The great outdoors is waiting, ready to be filled with excitement and imagination. Join a group of friends as they play together throughout the year in this joyful exploration of spending time outside every day.

Explore the fun that can be had outdoors in all weather and count how many children have gone outside to play in this celebration imaginative play and the simple pleasure of spending time outside everyday... and cozying up indoors at the end of the day.

At the end of this simple and lyrical picture book are discussion prompts and outdoor activity suggestions, all ready for parents and children to say... LET'S GO OUTSIDE!

Examples:

Being outdoors lets us use all our senses.

What can you SMELL when you're outside?

What can you HEAR?

What can you TOUCH? A hard tree trunk? Squelchy mud? Can you think of other things?

Review Quotes

Publishers Weekly: Inclusive entreaties to engage with nature pair with lush, page-filling depictions of children frolicking throughout landscapes and seasons in this irresistible call to "go outside!" Among the actions, kids with arrayed abilities and skin tones are presented searching for bugs in a verdant forest ("Let's be nature detectives/ hunting for minibeasts"), while others make snow angels in a frosty winter scene ("Let's wrap up toasty-warm when it's cold"). Ruiz's illustrations are washed in bold, overlapping colors, as captured in a spread of children running across a meadow aglow with reds and oranges, and a creative type treatment adds a layer of playfulness (rays shoot from sun, sploshy bounces like raindrops) in this litany of things to do and discover. The back matter employs teacherly questions, encouraging reader interaction.

About the Author

Ben Lerwill (Author)
Ben Lerwill lives in Oxfordshire and has two young children, whose vivid imaginations sparked his interest in writing children's books. He is also an award-winning freelance travel writer, an enthusiastic chef and a very bad guitarist.
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Ben's non-fiction for children is often inspired by his love of the natural world. Recent and include: Wild Family (Puffin), Let's Play Football (Welbeck) and Stone Age Beasts (Walker). His book Around the World in 80 Trees (Welbeck) was shortlisted for the 2022 Wainwright Prize for Children's Writing on Nature and Conservation.

Marina Ruiz (Illustrator)
After studying Fine Arts in Madrid and working as a freelance illustrator for some time, Marina moved to the UK. She studied at the Cambridge School of Art and graduated with a Distinction in an MA in Children's Book Illustration. Marina takes inspiration from the little moments that happen in everyday life and loves creating small narratives around them. She enjoys working with lyrical, more abstract narratives, combining images and text to express personal thoughts and emotions.