Books by Phillip E Knoll
Riverside Rat is a small independent imprint from Iowa. We make camping logbooks for people on the road, large-print activity books for people who need bigger type, coloring books for small hands, BBQ road trip logbooks, and the occasional true story. Pick a shelf below.
See Every Book on AmazonWhether you travel in a vintage trailer or a custom rig, there is a cover built for your camping lifestyle. Every one of them has the same thorough interior.
Every single one of our logbooks features an identical, masterfully organized interior layout template so you can seamlessly catalog your memories, routes, and site utilities:
Tailored for modern and vintage polished aluminum travel trailer enthusiasts.
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Perfect for tiny campers, micro-mini pull-behinds, and minimalist adventurers.
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Built for classic cab-over motorhome travelers and family road trips.
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Designed for full-sized motorhomes, luxury coaches, and long-haul highway cruisers.
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Tailored for spacious half-ton and heavy-duty fifth-wheel pull setups.
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Dedicated to the proud community of small-but-mighty fiberglass egg trailers.
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Honoring the lightweight fiberglass trailer lifestyle and cozy campouts.
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For overland pickup box setups, slide-in campers, and off-grid exploration.
View on AmazonSet in 28-point type, with wide margins and one activity to a page. Easy word searches, simple puzzles, bold coloring pages and conversation prompts โ made for tired eyes, and for anyone sitting down with someone who has them.
Everyday themes. Word searches, simple puzzles, bold coloring pages and conversation prompts, all in 28-point type.
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Christmas and New Year. The same large type and the same gentle pace, for the season when families are together.
View on AmazonBold outlines, no fiddly shading, and every drawing printed on its own page with a blank page behind it โ so a marker that bleeds through never ruins a second picture.
Thirty big, simple pictures for ages 2โ6. Bear, Fox, Rabbit and Owl do everything together โ pick berries, build a log cabin, throw a birthday party, watch the stars come out. Thick outlines and plenty of open space for hands still learning to stay inside the lines.
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Forty bold, easy seasonal pages following a backyard flock through the year โ chicken keeping and homesteading chores, season by season.
View on AmazonFor anyone who drives an extra hour for good brisket. Forty-five two-page stops to log what you ate, who came along and what the pitmaster wrote in your book. Guided by Bobi the hog from the free Iowa BBQ Directory at iowa-bbq.com.
Take the 99-County BBQ Challenge. A numbered county checklist, 45 stops, "Our Crew" ratings for the whole family, and a page for the pitmaster's autograph.
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The same logbook for the open road, with a 50-state BBQ checklist. Every stop, every bite, every pitmaster.
View on AmazonFundraisers, pancake breakfasts and $100 burgers - the best flying days are the ones you share.
Fifty fly-ins, two pages each: where you flew, what they served, and the pilots you met - with room to tape their business card. Bucket list, airports visited and a map to shade in.
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Five years of living with a grandmother whose memory was going โ what happened, what it took years to understand, and what I would do differently. Eleven short chapters. Those were not sad years, and this is a book about why.
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