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Camping Genre
Books in the Camping genre:
The Silver Chair (1953)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Ernest Thompson Seton’s America (1954)
An anthology of the writings of Ernest Thompson Seton, British-Canadian-American naturalist and founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Julia M. Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
The True Story of Smokey the Bear (1955)
Remember, only you can prevent forest fires.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Animal Tracks and Hunter Signs (1958)
Posthumously-published work on tracking by the noted woodcraft author.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
The Paleface Redskins (1958)
When a Boy Scout camp opens on their Happy Hunting Grounds the Potawatomi Indians vow to drive the palefaces back where they came from.
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Rock Hounds (1958)
When Eddie’s cousin Priscilla joins him at science camp he is certain she will ruin it for him.
Author(s):
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s):
Arnold Spilka
Esmeralda Ahoy! (1959)
Four children in a sailboat on the Thames.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Fairholme
Pamela Powell
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Buffalo and Beaver (1960)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Charles Beck
Anyone Can Live off the Land (1961)
How to stay warm in the wilderness, fish without tackle, quench your thirst, avoid getting lost, and build a shelter.
Author(s):
James Ralph Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Trap-Lines North (1965)
Based on the true adventures of Jim Vanderbeck this book tells the story of his winter on the trapline.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Enos Comstock
Professor Diggins’ Dragons (1966)
Five children embarked on a seaside vacation are not expecting to find dragons.
Author(s):
Felice Holman
Nadine Elisabeth Valen
Illustrator(s):
Ib Ohlsson
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1967)
The story of a twelve days’ hiking and expedition in the south of France.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Far-Distant Oxus (1969)
Three children spend the summer holiday on Exmoor where they find ponies, friends and adventure. This is a somewhat shorter version of the original work. The original illustrations have also been dispensed with.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Karl W. Stuecklen
The Most Delicious Camping Trip Ever (1976)
Ronald and Oliver, the twin bear cubs, go camping with Aunt Bear. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Alice Bach
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Hester in the Wild (1979)
A pig goes camping and canoeing.
Author(s):
Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s):
Sandra Boynton
The Little House Cookbook (1979)
Now you can eat the same dishes Ma served to Pa, Laura and her sisters.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Barbara M. Walker
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Ten-Alarm Camp-Out (1983)
A family of ten armadillos go camping and cause quite a ruckus.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Cathy Warren
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Hatchet (1987)
Thirteen year old Brian is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness.
Author(s):
Gary Paulsen
Illustrator(s):
Neil Waldman
Johnny Appleseed (1988)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The River (1991)
Brian returns to the Canadian wilderness to record his survival skills, and finds himself in more peril than he counted on.
Author(s):
Gary Paulsen
Illustrator(s):
Neil Waldman