Description: The boy knows he has the world s best father who shows him the hiding places of ground-nesting birds and how to paddle a canoe and handle a rifle safely. Never point your gun at anything you don t intend to shoot and don t kill anything you don t intend to eat. At the hunting camp they encounter a tiny white-footed mouse and he and the boy remind his father of the lesson.
Brief description: Bert Dodson is the author and illustrator of the best-selling learn-to-draw classic Keys to Drawing as well as the illustrator of over 80 children's books including a previous one with Willem Lang. He has also co-written The Way Life Works with noted biologist Mahlon Hoagland. He lives in Bradford, Vermont. .
Review Quotes: When I was a 15-year-old kid, Will arrived in our tiny Adirondack Mountain town. It was the beginning of an enduring and profound friendship. Over fifty years we've paddled, climbed, hunted, and fished together, and listened to each other. This story is Will at his best: a man, a boy, and a mouse in a camp together, a tender story of respect and caring for one another in the most important ways. -- - Baird Edmonds, retired designer, contractor and outdoorsman