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    Kid Pickers: How to Turn Junk into Treasure
    Kid Pickers: How to Turn Junk into Treasure
    Kid Pickers: How to Turn Junk into Treasure
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    Kid Pickers: How to Turn Junk into Treasure

    By Mike Wolfe, Lily Sprengelmeyer and Mike Right

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    The star of the hit television show American Pickers shares his love of treasure-hunting with kids.

    Mike Wolfe's love for "picking" started with old bikes, cigar boxes, and other collectibles people may have called "junk." A self-taught picker, the TV star now shares his passion for picking antiques with his enthusiastic kid audience, and offers tips on collecting, sorting through flea market offerings, asking relatives about family heirlooms, and much, much more. In the process, kids will pick up history, research skills, and new hobbies galore (and maybe even help clean the attic).
    Kids love treasure-hunting. Kid Pickers is a fun and practical resource from one of the most popular pros around.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781250008497
    Kid Pickers: How to Turn Junk into Treasure
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    Mike Wolfe

    Mike Wolfe has been diggin’ and pickin’ through junk since the age of four. As the star of the History Channel hit show American Pickers, Mike travels more than 60,000 miles a year around the country “making a living telling the history of America, one piece at a time.” He divides his time between LeClaire, Iowa, and Nashville, Tennessee, where he owns the store Antique Archaeology.

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      Wolfe shares his love and knowledge of picking and lots of good tips for kids with similar enthusiasms.

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    Kid Pickers - Mike Wolfe

    The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy.

    This book is dedicated to my mom, Rheta, who, with love and a whole lot of patience, taught me all things are possible and encouraged me to follow my dreams; to my daughter, Charlie, who warms my heart with her beautiful smile and is making me a better person; and to my wife, Jodi, who shows me every day what a best friend and partner truly means. I feel so blessed.

    —M. W.

    Dedicated to the dreamers, my third-grade students.

    —L. S.

    CONTENTS

    Title Page

    Copyright Notice

    Dedication

    A Word from the Creator

    Chapter One   WHAT’S A KID PICKER?

    Kid Picker Profile: Austin

    Chapter Two   GETTING STARTED

    Kid Picker Profile: Colt

    Chapter Three   PICKING WITH A PURPOSE

    Kid Picker Profile: Hannah

    Chapter Four   EVERY PICK HAS A STORY

    Kid Picker Profile: Jonah

    Chapter Five   UNLOCKING YOUR PAST

    Kid Picker Profile: Preston

    Chapter Six   RUSTY GOLD

    Kid Picker Profile: Will

    Chapter Seven   PICKER’S STYLE

    Kid Picker Profile: Chloeparis

    My Picker Farewell

    Kid Picker Vignettes

    Photo Credits

    Acknowledgments

    Index

    About the Author

    Copyright

    A Word from the Creator …

    MIKE WOLFE

    AMERICAN PICKER

    MY NAME IS MIKE WOLFE. I’ve been picking through junk ever since I was a kid. There’s simply nothing that excites me more.

    As a kid, my room was filled with all sorts of rusty relics I’d found while wandering through the woods behind my house. I loved collecting old comic books, plastic soldiers, monster models, and anything related to Evel Knievel (the American motorcycle daredevil of my time). But the thing I loved to collect most was bicycles. I collected all and any I could get my hands on, from rusted relics that could barely turn their wheels, to 1960s banana seats, I loved them all. I’d often ride my newfound picked bikes down to an old junkyard or venture down the river just to see what caught my eye. I never quite knew what I was looking for, but that’s what kept me searching, the excitement of uncovering

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