Karana, fictitious name by O'Dell for the Lost Woman of San Nicolas Island, aka Juana Maria, is left behind on San Nicolas Island and lives for approximately twenty years without human contact. Not much is known of her as she was the last of her kind, spoke an unknown language, and died before learn...
Sometimes to clear my head I go to the children's lit bookshelf in my daughter's bedroom (she is now in college), which was fully stocked long before she arrived because I've been collecting children's books for years, and I select a favorite to reread. Yesterday I selected and read this. It's the 6...
This book is very, very special to me. It was the first chapter book I ever finished on my own. The first Harry Potter book was the first I ever started by myself, so I consider both tied for the honor of first book!
I remember really loving this as a kid, so I read this to my daughters. My six year old had pretty much zero interest from page one, and I gotta say I was agreeing with her for the first fifty pages. The story picks up about a third of the way in, but it was pretty hard to hold our interest, as ev...
A few months back it struck me that I really knew nothing about juvenile literature. As a child I read Choose Your Own Adventure, Garfield, and every year's edition of Guinness' Book of World Records. When I graduated from these, it was on to the breathtaking voyages of Captain Picard and crew. And...
Can anyone believe that the last time I read this book was TWENTY YEARS AGO. Maybe more like sixteen. I didn't remember the beginning, but I remembered all the important parts and they were still just as good: how to be lonely, how to make stuff, how to love yr enemies and the ocean.
No matter how many times I read this book, I always enjoy it greatly. It takes after the style of books that are familiar in genre if not in the actual reading: the cast-away, who survives alone against the odds of the wilderness. Yet this book always stood out to me, because while it had so little ...
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