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Charlie & Mouse Outdoors

Laurel Snyder, illustrated by Emily Hughes

Charlie and Mouse take a weekend camping trip with their parents. The siblings grow bored during the drive, so their father suggests that they invent a story. Charlie’s fictional version of events follows the family through much of the outing, adding excitement to an otherwise quiet trip. The book moves between their everyday camping experience and the adventures shaped by Charlie’s imagination, while showing the brothers’ closeness and their differing responses to what happens around them.

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Book details

Themes
Adventure · Family · Imagination · Siblings
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Published
March 3, 2020
Pages
48
ISBN-13
9781452170664
Language
English
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