Backpacking With Babies and Small Children: A Guide to Taking the Kids Along on Day Hikes, Overnighters and Long Trail Trips [Paperback]

Goldie Silverman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1998

A book every parent should read before heading to the woods with the kids. Covers all aspects of outdoor living, from clothing, food, packs, and other equipment, to keeping the children happy, healthy, and safe on the trail.

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About the Author

Hiker, camper, teacher at high school and university levels, skier, remedial reader and cookbook author, world traveler, talented interviewer, author of Backpacking With Babies and Small Children (in print for almost twenty years) and her most recent book, Camping With Kids (Wilderness Press), mother and grandmother Goldie Gentler Silverman brings all her skills and interests to everything she does. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Wilderness Pr; 3 edition (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089997239X
• ISBN-13: 978-0899972398
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,543,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars for those who pack or camp for the first time, September 13, 2000

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M. Hammerschmidt "photo man" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Backpacking With Babies and Small Children: A Guide to Taking the Kids Along on Day Hikes, Overnighters and Long Trail Trips (Paperback)

While There is some good information in this book for those who are very inexperienced in the areas of backpacking or camping in gereral, I would hesitate to recommend this to anyone who has already had the pleasure of camping or spending some time in the outdoors. Reviews very basic elements of camping such as choosing tents, sleeping bags and apparel which anyone who has spent time outdoors will already have done. Has some other very basic information as well.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fairly informative, January 21, 2002

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C. Clemens "random lunatic" (a big pile of dirt, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Backpacking With Babies and Small Children: A Guide to Taking the Kids Along on Day Hikes, Overnighters and Long Trail Trips (Paperback)

i am reviewing the 1986 edition, not the revised 1998 edition. i would really give this book 3.5 or 3.75 stars if i could. yes, other reviewers are correct, it does cover very basic ideas, but it is not only geared toward beginning hikers & backpackers. my husband and i are expecting our first child in June 2002, and we don't want to abandon our love of backpacking together in the wilderness. this book has some encouraging ideas for crafting your own equipment, evaluating what you really need, and re-visiting your "single" hiking strategies; re-thinking them as "parent" strategies. it's much more useful than Robin Tawney's FalconGuide book "Hiking with Kids," which doesn't even address backpacking (except to call backpackers crazy who take babies & toddlers along). it's not the definitive guide, but it is oriented in the right direction. ultimately, i'm glad i bought it.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No helpful information in book., July 4, 1999

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This review is from: Backpacking With Babies and Small Children: A Guide to Taking the Kids Along on Day Hikes, Overnighters and Long Trail Trips (Paperback)

I was very disappointed in this book. I have camped, backpacked, and hiked a fair amount and was hoping for helpful information on doing these activities with children. The information is very basic. If you have been camping even one time, you will already know everything in this book. If you have never been camping, with or without children, you might find a few things helpful. Most of it is common sense.