Book Title:     Last Child in the Woods
Author:        Richard Louv
Year Published: 2008
Reviewed By:    Sandra Burne
Date:          2008-04-20

Review:

This book brings out the fact that children of today have limited exposure to nature.  There are many reasons for this: electronic diversions, strict rules of subdivisions and planned communities, building codes, organized sports, and even restrictions which spring from efforts to protect our environment. 

Look around your neighborhoods.  Do you see children playing outside very often? Mr Louv points out that exposure to nature is essential to a child's physical and emotional development and that may account for some of the rise in childhood obesity, depression and attention disorders.  Most of us adults, when we look back over our lives,  remember special times we have had while spending time in nature.  Are we to be the last generation to do so?  The book contains ideas to bring children back to experiencing the natural world.  It is an important book because what our children do not experience, they will not value or preserve.