I really enjoyed this story. It is about a boy who goes to live with his father in the city for summer. The problem is: his father works all the time and never talks to him. One day the father stumbles upon some pictures that the boy has cut out of magazines and hung on his wall. They a photographs of mountains, trees, and lakes. This inspires the father to take his son on a camping trip where they search for their own secluded lake.
On par with other Allen Say books, this is well written and uses his unique style of painted photographs. The books simulates a realistic event, and the dialog is spot on. In the story the boy learns a lot he did not know about his father, and their relationship grows because of the connection they make while out in nature.
When I read this book, I thought it would be great for students to make a collage of photos like the boy in the story does. Maybe they could use their own photos of nature that they have taken, or they could cut photos out of magazines of places they would like to someday visit. It would be a good activity to get students thinking about spending some time in the outdoors.
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