Listen
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The thing I always loved most as a child was to say no, or to say why or to just explore. And the best place to explore in my mind is what nature gives us, because it's still such a huge mystery. So it was the sights and the smells and the feel and the mystery that really attracted me. We had a woods behind our house in Swansea when I was growing up, there were the magic of what nature brings us. So there were berries and mushrooms and garlic plants and wild rhubarb that you could taste. You know, once you've done a bit of reading and my Bible at that point was Roger Phillips's Wild Food, which told you what was toxic, what you shouldn't touch or what you could touch and what you could use or eat, or just play with.
Read
![Young Explorers Forest School, Wild about Bushcraft, Camping out Shelter, ©) Fiona Danks and J Scholfield image from Go Wild! 101 Things to Do Outdoors Before You Grow Up by Jo Schofield and Fiona Danks, published by Frances Lincoln 2009 with permission of Francis Lincoln Ltd. forest school wild about bushcraft](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_520,h_300/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Young-Explorers-Wild-About-Bushcraft-camping-out-shelter-520x300.jpg)
Go wild – bushcraft for blind children!
![Stick Man book open on the park page with a tactile picture of Stick Man and the dog and the snail.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_520,h_300/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_0278-520x300.jpg)
Stick Man – a sensory journey
![An page from The Magical Garden of Claude Monet, showing Claude Monet walking over abridge. Overlayed with a tactile picture of Poplars.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_520,h_300/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/website-crop-CLAUDE-MONET-B-520x300.jpg)
Great gardening books to sprout little green fingers
![Forest School: Nature Detectives images and tactiles.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_501,h_300/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-19-at-12.56.12-501x300.png)
Action packed fact books for 11-14 years
![Snake and lizard images & tactiles.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_520,h_300/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Snake-and-lizard-collage-520x300.jpg)
Wonderful wildlife books for 7-14 yrs
![Science Alive! logo showing a rocket in space with planets and stars.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_520,h_300/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Logo-no-text-JPG-e1520347879762-520x300.jpg)
Science Alive! Accessible books to get blind children curious about science
![Portrait of Charles Darwin, a bald man with a full beard.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_490,h_300/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Portrait_of_Charles_Darwin._Wellcome_M0010103-490x300.jpg)