Meg Fleming – Author, Chuck Groenink – Illustrator

What a wonderful addition this book would be for a Pacific Northwest library! While the author is from the San Francisco Bay area, the illustrations will remind any reader of traveling through a forest on the way to an ocean shore. It follows a small group of kids walking on a path from the top of a mountain/hill to the view of the water and then back through tall trees. This book needs to be turned vertically to read and allows for a different view of the trail as it is tall and not wide. Each page has four lines that rhyme and thus will be fun for an adult to read to younger kids.

I highly recommend this book for us libraries in Western Washington. Readers will feel and understand the love of the forest after seeing this book. It will encourage all to go out and enjoy a hike!