Books


Camping:
  • The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids
  • Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids' Guide
  • The Kids Campfire Book
  • Camping for Kids (Into the Great Outdoors)
  • Camping With Kids: Complete Guide to Car Tent and RV Camping

Camping Activities:
  • Sleeping In A Sack: Camping Activities for Kids
  • Mac King's Campfire Magic: 50 Amazing, Easy-to-Learn Tricks and Mind-Blowing Stunts Using Cards, String, Pencils, and Other Stuff from Your Knapsack
  • Scary & Silly Campfire Stories: Fifteen Tales For Shivers & Giggles
  • FUN CAMPFIRE STORIES

Camping Recipes:
  • 100 Easy Camping Recipes
  • Campfire Cooking
  • Pie Iron Recipe Book

Backpacking/Hiking:
  • Backpacking with Babies and Small Children
  • Backpacker Magazine's Hiking and Backpacking with Kids: Proven Strategies for Fun Family Adventures
    • ​Good general overview for more adventurous families (cloth diapers in the woods!)
    • nice ideas for sleeping with babies: sleeping bag expander
  • Get Your Kids Hiking: How to Start Them Young and Keep it Fun!
    • nice guide by age group, also good ideas on how to develop routines
  • Babes in the Woods: Hiking, Camping & Boating with Babies and Young Children by Jennifer Aist, Mountaineers Books, 2010



Sharing Nature with Kids:
  • Sharing Nature with Children
  • Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You
  • The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms
  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder - read library
  • Nature Log Kids: A Kid's Journal to Record Their Nature Experience
  • Moving the Classroom Outdoors: Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning in Action
  • Small Wonders: Nature Education for Young Children
  • Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (Contemporary Issues)
  • Survivor Kid: A Practical Guide to Wilderness Survival
  • The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in the Virtual Age (online also)

Journals:
  • My Nature Journal: A Personal Nature Guide for Young People
  • We Love Nature!: A Keepsake Journal for Families Who Love to Explore the Outdoors
  • Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You


Guidebooks for kids:
  • Backyard Birding for Kids
  • The Kids Book of the Night Sky
  • Tools of Navigation: A Kid's Guide to the History and Science of Finding your Way (online also)
  • Tracks, Scats and Signs
  • Trees, Leaves & Bark
  • Follow That Map!: A First Book of Mapping Skills
  • Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years
  • National Geographic Kids Bird Guide of North America

Nature activities:
  • Let's Go Outside!: Outdoor Activities and Projects to Get You and Your Kids Closer to Nature
  • Nature in a Nutshell for Kids: Over 100 Activities You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less
  • Nature's Art Box: From t-shirts to twig baskets, 65 cool projects for crafty kids to make with natural materials you can find anywhere
  • Run Wild!: Outdoor Games and Adventures
  • 101 Nature Activities for Kids
  • I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature Paperback by Jennifer Ward
  • Fun With Nature: Take Along Guide
  • More Fun With Nature (Take Along Guides)
  • Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up
  • Wishing on a Star: Constellation Stories and Stargazing Activities for Kids (Acitvities for Kids)
  • Kids Camp!: Activities for the Backyard or Wilderness


Travel
  • Take-Along Travels with Baby: Hundreds of Tips to Help During Travel with Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler Paperback by Shelly Rivoli
  • The Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Children, 1st Edition Paperback by Fawzia Rasheed de Francisco
  • Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children Paperback by Shelly Rivoli

Specific to regions of the US:
  • Best Hikes with Children: Western Washington & the Cascades
  • Best Hikes with Kids Colorado
  • An Outdoor Family Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Best Hikes with Children in Oregon
  • Best Hikes with Children in Michigan
  • Best Hikes with Kids: San Francisco Bay Area
  • Best Hikes with Children in New Mexico
  • Best Hikes with Kids: Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine
  • Best Hikes with Children in Pennsylvania
  • Kids on the Trail: Hiking with Children in the Adirondacks


Stories to read your kids:
  • Stories to inspire your kids to go outside and have adventures:
  • Owl Moon
  • Wild and Wooly
  • Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping (I Can Read Book 2)
  • Bailey Goes Camping
  • The Berenstain Bears Blaze a Trail
  • Caillou Goes Camping
  • Camping Out
  • A Camping Spree With Mr. Magee
  • The Camping Trip that Changed America
  • Curious George Goes Camping
  • Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? Hardcover by Carmela LaVigna Coyle
  • Fred and Ted Go Camping In the Woods Board book by Elizabeth Spurr
  • Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night
  • Maisy Goes Camping: A Maisy First Experience Book Paperback by Lucy Cousins
  • Martha Speaks: Campfire Stories
  • My First Hike
  • OLIVIA Goes Camping
  • P. J. Funnybunny Camps Out
  • S is for S'mores
  • Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping
  • Stella and Roy Go Camping
  • Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
  • When We Go Camping
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