The Summer Visitors

Following her award-winning The Winter Visitors, children’s book author and illustrator Karel Hayes traces the interactions between a family of bears and a human family during their summer vacation at a lake cottage. Told primarily through the pen-and-ink and water color illustrations, with only a few words of text, The Summer Visitors is a feast for the senses. Children and parents (grandparents too) alike will delight in following the antics of the bumbling bears as they enjoy the comforts of cottage life, but also try to avoid detection by their human "hosts."