Bøker av John Yost

*Please note that in 2023 I revised this book to fix layout and factual errors noted by Reviewers.Thank you for your help and input! Do you have a snake lover in the family? If so, then you may have just found the perfect gift...If you have a snake enthusiast in your family, you can be confident knowing Snakes! is a gift they will love and appreciate!Bestselling children's book author John Yost brings you his bestselling book, "Snakes A Kid's Book of Cool Images and Amazing Facts About Snakes" This easy-to-read book has fascinating images that makes learning about snakes interesting and fun for your children, grandchildren, friends, or family members..Enjoying this book together is a great way to share precious moments with your youngster at bedtime or during a relaxing day together... Or... you can let them read and discover Snakes! on their own.There are smiles all around when children discover a fascinating new tidbit about these wild animals in Snakes! And...The book includes simple facts to help build your child's self-esteem. Your child will be so proud of themselves as they read something they already know and can confidently announce to everyone within earshot, "I knew that!"Here are just a few things worth sharing about Snakes! A Kid's Book of Cool Images and Amazing Facts About Snakes.Snakes! is a great curiosity builder... the perfect launching point for kids with an interest in snakes to build on their fascination. And...Kids who don't already love snakes may just change their minds!The young reader is taken on imaginary journeys to different habitats around the world in the jungle, forest, land and sea.Readers will uncover educational facts about these beautiful creatures: their anatomy, senses, feeding habits and more.The discovery continues as readers learn how serpents use their scales to crawl and slither silently while hunting for wildlife.Children squeal with delight as they point out details in the pictures that they read about in the book."Snakes!" is written with easy words (plus some new vocabulary about reptiles) to encourage children to stretch and learn on their own.And there are many, many more astonishing and interesting things for your child or grandchild to discover and explore in Snakes!The snake lover in your family will appreciate you for this great book and your support of their enthusiasm for snakes and reptiles! Snakes! includes two popular venomous snakes. The ultimate predators while hunting... searching for wildlife to bite with their deadly venom.Please get your copy!Snakes! A Kid's Book of Cool Images and Amazing Facts About Snakes features these fascinating species of snakes: *The amazing Anaconda *The bold Boa Constrictor *The beautiful Black Racer *The committed Cobra *The cool Copperhead (a venomous viper) *The graceful Garter Snake *The patient Python *The rare Rattlesnake (another venomous viper) *The sensitive Sea Snake This snakes book for kids captures the marvelous and amazing world of snakes and brings them alive. Please get your copy now!I hope you and your family love reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Thank you to everyone here on Amazon who helped make me a Best Selling Author!Best-selling Amazon author John Yost brings you How to Make Birch Bark Baskets. This book has over 30 illustrations and photographs along with detailed instructions to make your own birch bark baskets from materials you find in nature.This book on birch bark basket making is the first in the Wilderness Survival Skills Series and it's one of the best basket making books available. If you like making baskets as a hobby, you're a woodsman, or you simply enjoy crafting projects, this is an essential book for your library.The pictures and illustrations guide you through exactly how to make baskets with white birch bark. It's easy to follow along. And, after create your first basket, you'll look like you've been making baskets for years.The book has instructions for two different kinds of birch bark baskets, a round basket and a more traditional birch bark basket."How to Make Birch Bark Baskets" includes pictures of baskets and text describing how to harvest birch bark from a tree, where to find sewing material, and ways to put your basket together quickly and easily.You will also discover how to prepare and store materials if you plan to make your baskets later. Every facet of finding, gathering, storing materials, and making two different kinds baskets is covered.Nothing is left out in this comprehensive manual to making birch bark baskets.The book is written in hopes that your friends and family will join you in the fun of making a basket. My hope is that you can connect and share together. Sharing not only the baskets you make, but the bonding experience of doing it together is a beautiful thing.Please scroll up to get a copy and discover the joy of making birch bark baskets.How to Make Birch Bark Baskets includes: * Instructions and techniques on making TWO different kinds of birch baskets* Tools and items used to make a birch bark basket.* How to improvise if you need to.* Techniques so you can avoid making knots.* Best basket making materials.* How to harvest birch bark.* Gathering birch tree bark.* Collecting sewing material.* Finding a rim for your basket.* Processing materials for your birch bark basket.* Processing the roots.* Making a rim for your baskets* A birch bark basket pattern* Making a round birch bark basket* Shaping the round basket* Making a rim for a round basket* Making a base for a round Basket* More amazing projects using these same TechniquesThank you... I really enjoyed writing this book for you and I hope you make beautiful baskets using this book!Please purchase How to Make Birch Bark Baskets here in the Amazon Store.*** You will love it!***Mountain men, hunters, and preppers enjoy creating baskets too... Being in nature with a shelter and your basic living needs met is a peaceful and sustainable way of life. It takes preparedness to learn primitive bushcraft skills whether you are on of off grid. There is immense satisfaction in that. Making baskets is a natural extension for farming, hunting, or a trappers way of life. This book will help you create beautiful wild handcrafts.

Thank you to everyone who helped make me a Best Selling Author!This book on making cattails dolls is the number one book of its kind on Amazon. Thank you!!! I'm so grateful people like the books in my Wilderness Survival Skills Series.Best-selling Amazon author John Yost brings you "How to Make Cattail Dolls." This book has illustrations that guide you through making your first doll from beginning to end. The detailed instructions make creating your own cattail figurine easy and fun. If you like making handcrafts as a hobby, you're a woodsman, you out camping, or you simply enjoy crafting projects, this is an essential book for your library.The step by step illustrations are carefully drawn to show you exactly how to make dolls with cattails.And... you can use these same techniques with corn husks, palm leaves, and iris leaves as well. This means that you can make this style of doll in spring, summer, fall.It's easy to follow along with the book, and after making your first couple of dolls, you'll have the hang of it. It will feel like you've been making these cattail dolls for years.Like all good nature crafts books, you'll find ideas and illustrations for personalizing your doll. This makes them the perfect gifts for friends and family.It includes illustrations of each step and text describing how to use the different kinds of leaves on a cattail plant and build them up into a wonderful handcrafted decorative item.You'll discover how to tie special knots and make the arms by spinning the cattails like a rope.And, techniques to make your dolls one-of-a-kind, which means they will make wonderful gifts that people LOVE to get!You will also discover how to prepare and store materials for making cattail dolls. Every facet of gathering and storing materials is covered so you can make dolls at any time of the year.Nothing is left out of this comprehensive manual to making cattail dolls. With just a little training, you will have sufficient skills to make the basic cattail figurine in 30 minutes or less.The book is written in the hope that your friends and family to join you in the fun of making dolls. My hope is that you can learn and share together on outdoor adventures. Sharing not only the dolls you make, but the bonding experience of doing it together.Please grab your copy... Discover the joy of learning how to make a cattail doll with family and friends!"How to Make Cattail Dolls" includes: * Illustrated step-by-step instructions for making cattail dolls* Uses for different leaves on the cattail plant* Finding and collecting the best cattail plants in a field of them* How to harvest cattail leaves* Storing cattail leaves if you plan to make dolls later* Processing cattails so you can make dolls anytime of the year* How to twist fibers into string (this is how you make your doll's arms)* Ideas and Illustrations for personalizing your dolls with stick brooms, bows, arrows, rakes and other tools so your dolls make the perfect gift!I really enjoyed writing this book for you and I hope you make beautiful dolls that you and the people you give them to love.I am writing more books in this series about primitive bushcraft and sustainable off-grid living. I hope you, my reader, continue to enjoy these books. Please contact me with any questions or topic suggestions. Thank you!