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The Living Playground

by Erik Ohlsen
Illustrations by Snezana Grncaroska

Grandmother Tree with her community of magical animals and fairies wants to help children learn and grow. They create a living playground and fill it with special powers for children to discover. What will children learn there?

The Living Playground was born out of an ecological design of a natural playground for Sunridge, a K-8 Waldorf-inspired school located in Sebastopol, California. Many of the elements of the playground, designed by Permaculture Artisans, one of StoryScapes sister companies, are represented in this book. Along with the story and beautiful illustrations, you can find the actual design for the proposed playground inside the book.

Sunridge School wants a playground that is integrated with the ecosystem and helps connect children to the natural elements. It also needs to be a regular playground with slides, climbing structures, and a sandbox. We created this story to accompany the playground as a “design narrative” for students to learn about various animals and plants that inspired the many play habitats and elements that will be in the playground when it is built.

While developing the story, we realized that the entire planet is a living playground. The plants, animals, and ecosystems have a lot to teach us about caring peacefully for each other and the earth. We hope you enjoy this book and that you also get out into nature after you read it, to see your own living playground.

Item Special Note

Pick up/shipping information:

At auction close, item will be available for pick up in Sebastopol, CA on the designated pick up days or it can be mailed at the winning bidder’s expense.  The shipping cost of this item will be $5.00 plus the cost of insurance.  Winning bidder is responsible for all fees.  

If more than one item is won, we will combine shipping. Items are shipped via Priority Mail Flat Rate Shipping with the United States Postal Service. If the items do not fit into a Flat Rate box, the best shipping option will be chosen by the auction shipping team. For books, we will our best to package them to fit Media Mail requirements. Insurance will be added to the shipping costs. Winning bidder is responsible for all fees.

For planning, note that the pick-up days are  Friday, March 31, 2017 from 2:00-5:00pm and Saturday, April 1, 2017 from 10:00am-12:00 noon at SunRidge School in Sebastopol, California. All information and details about pick up times and location will be given in the auction closing email.

SunRidge School is not responsible for items lost or damaged during shipping and/or mailing.

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