A completely wordless picture book opens with a mom, dad, and child packed into a car topped with a red canoe, heading up north to the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota/Canada border. When they reach their wilderness destination, they leave their car, pack their camping gear into the canoe, and start to paddle, portage, then paddle some more until they reach a good spot to pitch their tent. It's just the three of them, surrounded by nature, without another human being in sight. Each family member is shown in a moment of solitary contemplation, while the other pair engages in activities such as fishing, gathering blueberries, or simply enjoying the view over a mug of coffee. The textured illustrations in earthy hues give readers a sense of the expansiveness and the beauty of the natural world in this story featuring a multiracial family (the mom and child are dark-haired and brown-skinned, the dad appears white). (Ages 4-8)

A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty



It's a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota-Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first visit? Or is it already your favorite destination?



Come along--join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature's infinite wildness one summer up north.