Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Stranger in the Woods by Carl R. Sams and Jean Stoick

Have you seen one? A stranger in the woods? Cause a ruckus for your forest friends and make your own. This photographic journal is an inspirational book about something so simple. Get out and take your own pictures, put them together and write your own story about nature and the friends that live in your woods. In the back of the book, you’ll find this great recipe…..ingredients are easy to come by, here in NH.


Recipe for a Snowman borrowed from Stranger in the Woods

Ingredients:

1 Generous Helping of Wet Packing Snow
¼ C of Round Nuts in the Shell
2 Larger Nuts
1 Large Carrot
2 Old Gloves or Mittens
1 Old Hat
3 Fallen Branches
1-4 Well-Bundled Children
2 Scoops of Imagination (VERY IMPORTANT)
1 Dash of Good Humor
Preheat a winter’s day to 32 degrees F or 0 degrees C.

Firmly pack a ball of snow between your two hands and place upon the ground. Continue to roll on snow covered ground until the ball gathers enough snow to measure about three feet. This will form the base of your snowman.
Roll and shape two additional snowballs. The first will be approximately one foot in diameter and the second will be two feet. Place the second largest ball on top of the base. The smallest is the head and goes on top.