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Camping Genre
Books in the Camping genre:
Freddy Goes to the North Pole (1951)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Fun Outdoors (1951)
An elementary school reader about camping.
Author(s):
Mary Louise Friebele
Bernice Osler Frissell
Frances C. Smith
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
Wish on the Moon (1951)
A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
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
Tammy Camps Out (1958)
The story of a girl who goes out camping.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Elizabeth Baker
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
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
Tammy Camps in the Rocky Mountains (1970)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Baker
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
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
Camping Out (1994)
Lowly and Huckle camp out in the backyard.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Swallows and the Amazons (1997)
This is a transcription of the original manuscript of Swallows and Amazons along with the original illustrations by Steven Spurrier which, aside from the dust jacket, were not used in the first edition as Ransome objected to them.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier
The Call of the Wild (1999)
Stolen from his home, Buck is shanghaied to the Klondike gold fields. There he bonds with John Thornton. When Thornton is killed by robbers, Buck becomes the leader of the wolf pack.
Author(s):
Jack London
Illustrator(s):
Wendell Minor
White Fang (2000)
A classic story of a half-dog half-wolf who is brutalized by a bad master during the Klondike gold rush, but finally finds a man he can love.
Author(s):
Jack London
Illustrator(s):
Ed Young
The Freddy Anniversary Collection (2002)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Brian’s Hunt (2003)
On his way to visit his friends, Brian encounters a wounded dog and knows something is wrong.
Author(s):
Gary Paulsen
Illustrator(s):
Bruce Emmett
Buffalo and Beaver (2004)
Jeff Barlow spends a season trapping in the Rockies with his father and hones his painting skills during the long nights.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Charles Beck
Robinson Crusoe (2011)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank