Adventure backpacks will enhance nature discovery

All stories start with an adventure. Now you can have your own right in your own back yard.

The Milton Free Public Library has 2 adventure backpacks available to explore the local woods and waterways of Milton.
The "Woods" backpack includes a notebook for noting observations, binoculars, a compass, and wristband compass, a bug net, a bug catcher, 3 bug containers , survival blanket, 3 magnifying glasses, tweezers, Map and Compass "how to" book, Wilderness and Travel Medicine book, and a deck of cards that help identify animal tracks.

The Adventure Beach Bag includes a notebook for noting observations, an octopus kite, wrist-band compass, 3 bug containers that aid observation, 2 magnifying glasses, a bug catcher tweezers and a deck of cards that give ideas of fun things to do at the beach.

Both bags have extensive lists of books available at the Milton Free Public Library that can help enhance the adventure or give more information about the natural world around them. The Milton Conservation Commission plan on producing maps for these bags of local public access trails and waterways.
The Milton Free Public Library also has a instant camera available to be used with the adventure bags to record their excursions.
The Adventure Backpacks are made possible with a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF). The Milton Free Public Library gratefully accepted this grant in addition to a donation of $2,000 worth of children's books to the library, and additional $500 worth of books to the Milton Elementary School Library and a pledge for additional children's books that will be handed directly to Milton Elementary School Children in the spring.
CLiF is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1998. Its mission is to nurture the love of reading and writing among low-income, at risk and rural children.

The grant encourages libraries in New Hampshire and Vermont town of 5000 residents or fewer to join forces with schools and childcare centers to encourage a community-wide commitment to literacy. Over 18 years CLiF has inspired 200,000 young readers and writers through literacy program grants and has given away more than $4.5 million in new high-quality children's books. For more information visit clifonline.org.