Travels with My Family

by Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel

Book Overview

Instead of dream vacations to Disney World and hotels with swimming pools and water slides, the parents in Travels with My Family insist on obscure destinations in the middle of nowhere. They're determined to go, even if it means hours of dull driving filled with countless back-seat, argument-inducing games of Twenty Questions and out-loud readings of the "How to Change a Tire" chapter from the owner's manual. But bad as the travel is, it's nothing compared to what happens when they arrive: eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while collecting sand dollars off the coast of Georgia, and mistaking alligators for logs in the middle of Okefenokee Swamp.

Travels with My Family is told from the point of view of a long-suffering big brother who must attend to many responsibilities in this eccentric family -- keep little brother out of trouble; humor artistic Mom while she seeks out beauty and inspiration in the least likely places; and discourage nearsighted, tone-deaf Dad from pulling out the road map to search for yet another strange destination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888998333
• ISBN13: 9780888998330
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Great Family Read-Aloud

Full of humor and escapades that families can relate to, this book is a great read aloud! It prompts your "remember when..." vacation stories and inspires "where shall we go next?" plans. Easy enough that my third grade son could read chapters to us.