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THE SUMMER BOOK® is an annual comprehensive guide to Houston day camps and classes for kids 4 years old and up and teens. The guide is published annually in MARCH by Gish Creative and includes information on over 200 organizations offering camps and classes for children in the summertime. The camps are divided by “arts”, “educational”, “religious”, “special needs” and “sports”. It also includes information on which camps are free or offer scholarships, which are full day or for teens, as well as a week-by-week chart by date and a chart detailing amenities of each camp. To help parents “map out” each child’s summer, there is a camp calendar for organizing weekly schedules. Please note that since every camp experience is unique, we made a decision to not rate the camps and to instead concentrate on information needed by parents.

THE SUMMER BOOK® is the brainchild of Houston mom Sarah Gish. It was created in 2003 after she barely survived the first year of "summer stress" -- the summer after kindergarten for her older child when daycare programs were no longer an option. After several parents began requesting to look at her stockpile of summer camp brochures and information, Sarah realized that one "go-to" guide for summer day programs in Houston needed to be created. She decided to concentrate on day camps since the world of overnight camps extends all over the state and beyond -- including them would compromise the focus of the book. THE SUMMER BOOK® quickly became THE information source on summer day camp information for desperate parents and caregivers as well as grandparents and out-of-town visitors to Houston.

Sarah assembled a wonderful team for THE SUMMER BOOK®: graphic designer Kelly Blakley (www.kellyblakley.com), web designer Kristine Brashears (www.westoftheworld.com) and community consultant Mary Ellen Wolf (www.wolf-lamb.com).


THE SUMMER BOOK creator Sarah Gish with son, Alexander,
selling the first books door to door!

THE SUMMER BOOK® will be available at the retailers listed below mid-March each year. Please call ahead to verify location, hours and supply.

Here is a sample page from the latest version of THE SUMMER BOOK®. Click on the thumbnail to see full-size version.

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THE SUMMER BOOK®
Retailers

Please support these
area retailers that sell
THE SUMMER BOOK
®!
We are so grateful to them!
Call store first before venturing out
to make sure they have the book
in stock as it sells out fast.

Barnes and Noble
Call or visit a location near you!

Blue Willow Bookshop
14532 Memorial Drive; Houston, Texas - map link
281-497-8675

British Isles
2366 Rice; Houston, Texas - map link
713-522-6868

Children's Museum of Houston
1500 Binz; Houston, Texas - map link
713-522-1138

Christ Church Cathedral Bookstore
1117 Texas Ave.; Houston, Texas - map link
713-222-0286

Cotton Tots
6510 Woodway; Houston, Texas - map link
713-785-8686

Fundamentally Toys
1963 W. Gray; Houston, Texas - map link
713-524-4400

The Motherhood Center
3701 W. Alabama, Ste. #230; Houston, Texas - map link
713-963-8880

River Oaks Bookstore
3270 Westheimer; Houston, Texas - map link
713-520-0061

If there is a retailer you think would sell THE SUMMER BOOK®, please e-mail us and we'll see what we can do!
 

THE SUMMER BOOK®
Advertisers

Please support these
organizations that advertised
in THE SUMMER BOOK
®!
This guide would not have
been possible without
their support.

American Festival for the Arts

American Robotics Academy

Art Mix! Creative Learning Center

Bayou Village School

Blaffer Gallery

Blue Willow Bookshop

Camp Invention

Danny Clark Photography Studio

French Alliance

Futura Language Professionals

Green Plate Kids

Hollywood Frame Gallery

Hoops School

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Houston Dynamo

Houston Grand Opera

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Houston Piano Company

Ice at the Galleria

Ikids, Inc.

Imagination Campus

Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas

Kinkaid School

Leah White and the Magic Mirrors

Legacy Multimedia

Mad Hatter Arts

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Rainard School

St. Francis Episcopal Day School

Wonder-Space Computer & Technology Education Center

YMCA of Greater Houston

Yorkshire Academy

To become part of
THE SUMMER BOOK
®
Super Advertisers Club,
please contact Sarah Gish
at Gish Creative.

Click here to order THE SUMMER BOOK®!


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