Camp resources

For more information on children and camps:

www.campparents.org, an American Camp Association Web site directed at parents.

“The Summer Camp Handbook: Everything You Need to Find, Choose and Get Ready for Overnight Camp —

and Skip the Homesickness” (Independent Publishers Group, 247 pp., $14.95), by Christopher A. Thurber

and Jon C. Malinowski, offers advice about the camp experience.