This is a story for anyone who enjoys sleeping in a tent, cooking flapjacks out of doors, swimming in a clear blue lake, and sailing a rubber raft that is all one's own.
It is a story about camping in Wisconsin. When the Brown family started off for the state park, their old car was piled high: tents, cots, pots and pans, a gasoline stove, groceries, bedding, flashlights, clothing-even Grandpa's rocking chair!
The Browns found a campsite on Rocky Point with a view of Green Bay sparkling through the pine trees. During the day, Mother and Dad worked at the nearby cherry orchard to earn money for a new second-hand car. Danny and Carrie and Grandpa had their chores too-fetching wood and water, fixing meals, keeping everything tidy-but there was plenty of time for fun! Even Corky, the brown and white dog, thought it the nicest place he'd ever been.
It's Jane Rietveld's favorite camping spot too, and that's how she came to do this book. All the practical information about camping is based on ten years of tried and true experience. For she and her husband get off to the country every possible weekend and vacation. "We return to this spot so often," writes Mrs. Rietveld, "that we have come to regard it quite possessively. I can picture myself there now, frying fish on the gasoline stove, the waves lapping the shore, and the wind in the pines."
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