Back in the day, you loved hiking, but lately the only communing with nature you do is during play dates in the park. Get back to the woods with your kids (and pry them away from SpongeBob for a while) with the Best Hikes With Children series from Mountaineers Books ($15 to $17, www.mountaineersbooks.org). Each volume covers a state or a region, lists dozens of hikes suitable for kids, rates trails for difficulty, and highlights features along the way — beaver dams, frog habitats, trout-filled creeks — sure to excite budding naturalists.