Fourteen-year-old Joey spends his childhood visiting a beautiful back-country pond in Virginia. His humorous and heart-warming adventures in and around the pond

Combining personal reminiscence with reflections on the history of the place over the years and through the seasons, for the first time this collection brings t

Take a trip to a pond. See fish, cattails, dragonflies, turtles, and other interesting plants and animals that live there. Take a ride in the water on a canoe.

Poems and illustrations celebrate a day at the pond.