100 Places That Can Change Your Child's Life: From Your Backyard to the Ends of the Earth

Kids who learn to travel will travel to learn.National Geographic TravelerEditor Keith Bellows sends you and your children globetrotting for life-changing vacations that will expand their horizons and shape their perspectives. What youwontfind inside: predictable itineraries and lists of landmarks and events. Instead, youll get evocative, slice-of-life experiences and age-appropriate ideas that illuminate place and culture.

Each chapter of100 Places That Can Change Your Childs Lifeplumbs the heart of a special placefrom the Acropolis to Machu Picchu to the Grand Canyonall from the perspective of insiders who see destinations through a childs eyes. Youll meet actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy, who tours the suqs of Marrakech with his seven-year-old son; photographer Annie Griffiths, who shares the miraculous migration to Mexico of the monarch butterflies; Tom Ritchie, who has guided countless children and parents to Antarctica for more than 30 years; the waterman who knows where to see the ponies of Assateague in the true wild; and countless others who are cultural treasures, great storytellers, and keepers of a sense of place.

Packed with ideas to supplement the travel experiencefoods, music, films, and carefully curated lists of kid-friendly activities and places to eat and staythis inspiring book is the perfect trip planner to excite children about culture and the unique magic the world has to offer.