When We Go Camping
PreSchool-Grade 2-A dreamy, poetic text and rich, detailed paintings  combine to create a book that evokes the sights, sounds, and  smells of camping. Family members pitch a tent by a lake, hike,  swim, canoe, and interact with their surroundings. The text  celebrates the pure wilderness, and the characters are depicted  as responsible campers-they hoist their cooler into a tree to  protect it from bears, wear life jackets while out on the lake,  and identify the correct berries to eat off the bushes. The  illustrations show the birds, squirrels, and elk that the  children and their parents tiptoe past on their hike. There are  plenty of things on this camping trip for readers to  examine-animals hide in the trunks of trees or in the lake.  There is also the natural world to ponder-families of raccoons,  birds, deer, and moose abound, and a key helps readers identify  the creatures. This book will interest both those who have  camped and those with camping trips yet to come. The only thing  missing from this story is the mosquitoes.Susan Marie Pitard,  formerly at Weezie Library for Children, Nantucket Atheneum, MACopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.