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Summary: Just the Thing for the Camp
Review: Consistent with its title, the book is organized into 12 chapters, starting with January. Each chapter consists of a number of titled subsections, or essays. Each essay discusses the expected activity of a species, and is accompanied by an illustration. The essays do attempt to tie together information about a species' activity in other times of the year, and other species' activity at the same time of year. The illustrations are mostly black line drawings, while some are half-tones. All are nicely done and complement the text well. Essays on some species appear in more than one chapter. The index allows the reader to locate information about a specific animal or plant. The book is filled with details that you may have missed or forgotten in school. It explains how to distnguish a dragonfly from a damselfly, where loons spend the winter, and why there's a run on mouse traps in September. The text is repetitive at times, and the pronouns are sometimes confusing. Overall, though, it is a pleasant and informative book. The author clearly knows and loves his topic. It's well worth having at the camp, or while wintering away from it.
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