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Mission:Explore featured in The Guardian G2
Mission Explore was featured in The Guardian G2 kids section yesterday, 5 August under the headline How to be an Explorer. And they are asking any of you kids out there to send photos in from your adventures to g2kids@guardian.co.uk – so get out there and show them what guerilla geography is all about.

“it may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published” Geographical Magazine August 2010
We certainly believed in the groundbreaking and ‘revolutionary’ Mission:Explore book which Can of Worms published this April 1st. But it wonderful to receive such an endorsement for the great work of The Geography Collective and Tom Morgan-Jones’s humourous illustrations. And if you haven’t got a copy yet, you can order by clicking here: Mission:Explore or through your local bookstore on online retailer.
Geography Collective launches Risk Aversion tracking blog
The wonderfully inventive and incorrigibly curious crew at The Geography Collective have launched a new blog to track stories in the media about risk aversion. Our recently published book: Mission:Explore, written by The Geography Collective and illustrated by Tom Morgan-Jones is the purest antidote known to man*(kind) and beast for the cotton wool culture that our children are being enveloped in.
Do please go and take a look at their blog: http://thegeographycollective.wordpress.com/ as well as the book, and please tell your friends.
* for man please also read woman, boy, girl, child, etc. etc
Mission:Explore officially launched
One reads a lot about book launches. At Can of Worms we are hoping that the official book launch of Mission:Explore will catapult it into best sellerdom. Following is a brief look at last weekend’s book launch: mebooklaunch
Walkit.com takes Mission:Explore in its stride
The intrepid folk at Walkit.com have kindly given us a great plug for Mission Explore. Why not walk over that way and see what they say on their site.
Cotton Wool Kids and MISSION:EXPLORE
It all started with The Geography Collective in 2008, and Mission:Explore is about to be released into the wild: 
“For all our sakes we need more children falling off branches, getting lost in forests and getting stuck inside trees. The message is simple; it is more risky not to go into the woods. It is dangerous for not only the health of the individual but the world.
Recently the media has been wrapped up in a blanket of stories about cotton-wool kids.”
This was the beginning of a fascinating blog post on the Stanfords Bookstore website, written by Daniel Raven-Ellison of The Geography Collective. You can read the entire blog here: http://www.stanfords.co.uk/articles/blog/the-geography-collective-get-lost-kids,229,AR.html
And please pre-order your copy/ies of MIssion:Explore off these pages as well. For every two you buy a third copy WILL be donated to kids who can’t afford their own copy.
Mission:Explore at the Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival
Can of Worms Kids Press is joining up with the fantastic folks behind the Crystal Palace Children’s Books Festival to be held on 23rd October. Two missions are being published in the October issue of The Transmitter magazine, and anyone completing the missions will get a prize or great Love Outdoor Play sticker.
IT’S TIME TO EXPLORE! Mission:Explore contains 102 missions that challenge you to (re)discover our world. Become a guerilla explorer and extreme missioner with missions that defy gravity, see the invisible and test your mental agility. CLICK HERE to see a sample
Buy a copy for just £6.00 including P&P (normal price £7.99 plus P&P). Each illustrated mission will challenge you in daring new ways. Draw, rub, smear, write, scrape and print your findings and achievements as you complete each mission. LOOK INSIDE…if you dare!
Get Mission:Explore for only £6 including UK P&P using the button below.
Why not check out the Geography Collective’s other book, the Journey Journal as well?
Did we mention the award?
We hope that you enjoyed the video of Georgie out on the Guerilla Geographer warpath. As a result of Georgie’s efforts and all of the good folk at The Geography Collective and The Workshop we are delighted to announce that we won a Geovation Award from the Ordnance Survey for our forthcoming MISSION:EXPLORE iPhone app. We’ll keep you posted for new developments.
Guerilla Geographer
It has been too long. Last Saturday (in truth over a month ago now) we launched our gorilla marketing campaign for Mission:Explore on the streets of London. Georgie our marketing guru was going ape, check out the missions demonstrated here: http://bit.ly/GuerrillaVideo



