Arthur's Camp-Out

March 1, 1993
Gr. 1-2. Cheerful line-and-watercolor artwork illustrates this episodic story from Hoban's Arthur series. Whiling away a spring day, the young chimp puts down his little sister Violet's bits of nature lore as "baby science," and decides to go on a field trip without her "to collect frogs and worms and snakes--slimy things that you would not like." When Violet's friends invite her for a girls-only camp-out, he annoys them by offering to come along to protect them. Rebuffed, he decides to do a little solo camping instead. After a series of misadventures, a wet, tired, hungry, and humbled Arthur joins the girls around their campfire after all. Not the best of the series, but still a pleasant excursion for Arthur's many fans. ((Reviewed Mar. 1, 1993))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1993, American Library Association.)