Books that pertain to camping and summer camp from the Pigeon Post essay of the same name from June 24, 2007.
Books introducing the idea of camp for young ones
Bear Hug by Laurence P. Pringle & Kate Salley Palmer
Franklin's Canoe Trip by Sharon Jennings & Sean Jeffrey
In the Bush by Roland Harvey
Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer
Mog in the Dark by Judith Kerr
Orlando the Marmalade Cat by Kathleen Hale
Quiet Night by Marilyn Singer & John Manders
S Is for S'mores by Helen Foster James & Lita Judge
The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest by Stan Berenstain & Jan Berenstain
The Lost Lake by Allen Say
Series/Learn to Read Books
Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping by Peggy Parish & Lynn Sweat
Angelina And Henry by Katharine Holabird & Helen Craig
Arthur's Camp-Out by Lillian Hoban
Babar's Rescue (by the son, not the father) by Laurent de Brunhoff
Bailey Goes Camping by Kevin Henkes
Camping Out (Little Critters) by Mercer Mayer
Cam Jansen and the Summer Camp Mysteries by David A. Adler & Joy Allen
Curious George Goes Camping (by the wife, not the husband) Margret Rey & H. A. Rey
Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night by Cynthia Rylant & Sucie Stevenson
Maisy Goes Camping by Lucy Cousins
Independent Reader
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Donald McKay
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Steven Kellogg
Chasing Bears by Earl Fleck
Chasing Fire by Earl Fleck
Eight Cousins or the Aunt-Hill by Louisa May Alcott
Ellie McDoodle by Ruth Mcnally Barshaw
Holes by Louis Sachar
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Let's Get Primitive by Heather Menicucci & Susie Ghahremani
Little Horse on His Own by Betsy Cromer Byars & David McPhail
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Riding Camp by Bonnie Bryant
Sally Goes to the Mountains by Stephen Huneck
Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen & Brian Biggs
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain & Donald (ILT) McKay
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Summer Camp Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner & Hodges Soileau
The Night Before Summer Camp by Natasha Wing & Mindy Pierce
Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp by Debbie Dadey
Survival stories/YA
A Journey Through Texas by Frederick Law Olmsted & Witold Rybczynski
A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
Death Mountain by Sherry Shahan
Far North by Will Hobbs
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell & Ted Lewin
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat & Charles Geer
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler & Joseph B. Egan
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe & W. J. Linton & W. J. Linton
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss & Lynd Kendall Ward
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Cay (audio book) by Theodore Taylor narrated by Michael Boatman
The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss & Louis John Rhead & Louis John Rhead
Reference
Riddles and More Riddles! by Bennett Cerf & Debbie (ILT) Palen
Camp-Lore And Woodcraft by Dan Beard
Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart
Camping for Dummies by Michael Hodgson
How to Stay Alive in the Woods by Bradford Angier & Vena Angier
SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell
The American Boy's Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard
The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard & Adelia Beard
The Foxfire Book by Eliot Wigginton
The Kids Campfire Book by Jane Drake & Ann Love & Heather Collins
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht
Toasting Marshmallows by Kristine O'Connell George & Kate Kiesler
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature and Survival for Children by Tom Brown & Judy Brown & Heather Bolyn & Trip Becker
Woodcraft and Indian Lore by Ernest Thompson Seton
Worst Case Scenario Book Of Survival Questions by Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht & Brenda Brown
Camping Gone Wrong
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro
Snowbound by David Lavender
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer