A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen

Let me introduce you to Mr. Magee, a single man who has a trusty dog, Dee. In A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee, he packed his rv and headed out to go camping. Or so he thought. Enter one bear and a runaway camper and camping doesn't go as planned.

Then, I found him in another volume, trying another trip: boating, in Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee. Enter a pod of whales and a tree-born boat (yes, tree-born) and the boat trip, too, goes off-schedule.

Then there's Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee. You get the picture.

Told with an upbeat cadence of rhyme, it's one adventure after another for Mr. Magee and his dog, Dee. The cleverly solved disasters will delight older preschoolers. But beware: I found there are enough words on each page to make very young readers impatient for you to turn the page.