Camilla and the Fall Festival - (Camilla the Cartographer) by Julie Dillemuth (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Our favorite mapping boar is back in her fourth adventure!

Fall is Camilla the Cartographer's favorite time of year. Dried leaves swirling on the breeze make the air smell like her most treasured old maps. Less daylight means more cozy time to curl up in bed with a book. And most of all, she loves the annual Fall Festival. Hazelnut bread, chestnut pudding, leaf art, pinecone patterns . . . she can't wait to celebrate all her favorite traditions, just like every year.

Camilla, Parsley the porcupine, and all their forest friends work hard getting everything ready . . . only for a windstorm to destroy everything the night before the festival is supposed to start. Decorations are scattered throughout the forest and clear across the meadow! Does this mean the festival is ruined? Or can teamwork--and Camilla's mapping skills--save the day? The festival might not look exactly the way it always has . . . but maybe change can be a good thing. And maybe they can discover some new traditions along the way.

Review Quotes

"Teachers and students alike will rejoice in the gentle but important lessons learned in this delightful and engaging book. . . . [T]he accompanying reader's note provides plenty of helpful discussion questions and extension activities to develop children's social-emotional flexibility and spatial thinking. . . . A highly recommended purchase for classrooms, especially for schools and classrooms looking for project-based learning opportunities that cover cartography and for school counselors looking to highlight the power of flexible and positive thinking."--School Library Journal