The book to inspire tiny family adventures with big impact
Maybe your kids have caught the travel bug over recent spring break travels, or maybe they’re just curious about the world around them. For them, I’ve found the most extraordinary travel book that will inspire even the biggest, most cynical “can’t we just stay home and play video games?” cynics to want to get up and see the world.
(If only via Google.)
The Atlas of Miniature Adventures is filled with 7 continents full of small-scale wonders, which are just fascinating to discover, whether or not it impacts future travel fans.
Colorful, engaging pages offer quick descriptions of destinations as diverse as the Omiya Bonsai Village outside Tokyo; the expansive, lavish 1930 fantasy dollhouse housed at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry; the Cuban forest home of the tiniest hummingbirds, with nests are the size of thimbles; and the New Jersey home of one of the world’s largest miniature modern train displays — and no that’s not an oxymoron).
But the page that most captured my heart was the description of Holland’s Madurodam, the miniature city that I fell in love with as an 8 year old myself, and now, I’m dying to return with my own kids.
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The Atlas of Adventures and The Atlas of Animal Adventures.
I never thought twice about diapering my son with the eco-not-so-conscious disposable diaper. I have to admit, I thought that cloth diapers were still big cotton towels that required safety pins, manual dexterity, and a whole lot of free time.
Don’t get any sick ideas, dear readers. We’ve all seen our share of those softies and we certainly don’t need a stuffed one of THOSE laying around the house. 
When my 3 year old was a newborn we planned a trip to Europe and before I could say auf viedersehn, my brain pictured all the filthy traveling potties we would encounter while changing her diaper.