When I was young, I was a huge fan of a series of books about "Dale of the Mounted" (the only title I can remember is "Dale of the Mounted in Newfoundland") about a Canadian Mountie (named Dale, of course). I don't remember anything about them, except I think he drove a dog sled in at least one of the books. <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

And another book I read and enjoyed was "Paddle to the Sea", a rather strange travelogue involving a carved toy Indian in a canoe that was left on a snowbank overlooking Lake Superior, to eventually travel through the Great Lakes and the St. Laurence River to the Atlantic Ocean. An ingeniously sneaky way of getting children to learn geography <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />