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K-3
A child on a camping trip with his parents watches an otter family that lives along the river. Human and otter activities parallel each other as they stretch, fish, eat, wrestle, and dream the day away. The detailed watercolors and their borders express the otters' playfulness and the observant narrator's appreciation of the natural world. An author's note about otters concludes the book.