Hardcover
(The Viking Press (Weekly Reader Books), March 15, 1980)
Children and adults alike will enjoy this 2 book set of vintage Cam Jansen books. In Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds, a 5th grader with a photographic memory, and her friend Eric, help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds. In Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball a baseball signed by Babe Ruth is on display at the hobby show. One minute it was there and the next it was gone. Who stole the prized baseball? Cam, the 5th grader with the mental camera teams up with her friend Eric to solve the mystery.
Children will love this 3 book Weekly Reader collection by Kevin Henkes. In Bailey Goes Camping (1985), Bailey is too young to go camping with the Bunny Scouts but his parents take him o a special camping trip in his own house. In A Weekend with Wendell (1995), Sophie does not enjoy energetic, assertive Wendells weekend visit until the very end, when she learns to assert herself and finds out Wendell can be fun to play with after all. Chrysanthemum (2000) loves her name until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.