SOLVED. Children's Picture book about a family driving to the beach and the boy keeps throwing his clothes out the window. I read it somewhere in 1997-2000. [s]

[Aaron]

This is a children's picture that I read in around the years from 1997-2000. I read it in the country of Canada (it was in English), and it seemed like a book that would have been published in the 1990's. The book is about a family that is driving to the beach, Mom and Dad in the front of the vehicle and their young son and his dog in the backseat. The boy is probably 8 or 9 years old and I believe they are all white. The boy starts getting bored in the back as they are driving along the highway, so he decides to roll down his window, take off his sock and let it go out the window. He gets enjoyment out of this, so he does it with his other sock, then his shoes, then his shirt, then his pants. The book ends with the parents parking at the beach, opening the back of the vehicle and finding their son asleep in his underwear. I'm not sure how to describe the style of pictures, but they were maybe similar to Robert Munsch. I believe it was set in the present, and there wasn't much shown to indicate location but I'd guess North America or UK. Any help is appreciated, so thank you.

[Becca]

Are we there yet? by Nancy Crystal? I could only find a French edition on archive.org but the pictures do show the boy throwing his clothes out of the window and ending up only in his underwear - https://archive.org/details/quandestc...

[Aaron]

Becca wrote: "Are we there yet? by Nancy Crystal? I could only find a French edition on archive.org but the pictures do show the boy throwing his clothes out of the window and ending up only in h..."



I went by the library that I used to read the book at. If that is the correct book, they don't carry it anymore, but the cover looks very familiar so I am sure that is it. I thank you very much. How did you find it so fast, because I've been looking for over a year.

[Becca]

Glad to help! I used WorldCat to find it, which is a global library database. I tried a couple of different keyword searches but the one that worked was searching for keyword: beach + keyword: car, then filtering by fiction and a year range, and it came up with the description 'A car full of Dexter's toys still is not enough to keep him from becoming restless on a long car trip to the beach'. I thought that sounded promising so tried to find a copy or review to check, and found that French edition on archive.org.