A Boy's Summer: Father and Son Together
Addressing boys aged eight to 14, Spence (Give Me Liberty!) offers blueprints for outdoor activities that fathers and sons can do together. Making stilts, gardening, fishing, and kite making are among the suggested projects, most of which take place in the vicinity of creeks, woods, plains, and ponds. Through these projects, boys will have a good time, grow close to their fathers, and become more responsible through these skill- and character-building exercises. This work, however, has a limited readership because of its target audience. Since most of the activities demand rural surroundings, it is minimally applicable to suburban and urban kids, and it is largely useless to boys without fathers. Spence's intimate style and emphasis on strengthening relationships recall Robert Ruark's The Old Man and the Boy (Holt, 1995). Libraries interested only in a nature-oriented activity book, however, might consider Susan V. Bosak's Science Is  (Firefly, 1992). For rural public libraries or where interest warrants.-Douglas C. Lord, Hartford P.L., CTCopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.