Helpful Score: 2
I really enjoyed this book. I felt like I was in the cooler with the kids and the bear was going to get me as well as them. Lots of tension. Writing from the perspective of a five year old was great - I would highly recommend this book.
Helpful Score: 1
An engaging story based on a real life bear attack on Bates Island on Lake Opeongo in Algonquin Park, northeast of Toronto. The real life incident didn't include children, but this story is told by a five year old girl that witnessed the bear attack her parents, and her dying mother's plea for her to take her nearly three year old brother in the canoe to leave the island for safety.
Intense and heart wrenching, as the children are on their own in the wilderness until their rescue and the aftermath of coming to terms with what happened to their parents.
Intense and heart wrenching, as the children are on their own in the wilderness until their rescue and the aftermath of coming to terms with what happened to their parents.
Anna, her mom, dad and brother Alex (Stick) are camping. Anna and her brother are in the tent to go to sleep. Anna hears her parents talking, but suddenly her mother screams, which is very unlike her mom. Next, dad comes and puts her and her brother in a large Coleman locker, but shuts it with a secure way of getting it open.
Anna hears noises that aren't quite right. She feels a big black dog sniffing at the opening of the cooler. When that sniffing stops, she gets her brother out of the cooler and finds her mother. Mom tells her to get her brother into the canoe and go for a ride and that she and dad will meet up with them.
What has actually happened is awful. And keep in mind that Anna is only 5 years old and Stick is only 2.
Anna gets them in the canoe and from there scary things happen.
This is written in the wording of a 5 year old taking on the wilderness, taking care of herself and her brother.
This was a very unique concept. You feel so helpless reading this little girl's thoughts, trying to remember that she is as young as she is.
Anna hears noises that aren't quite right. She feels a big black dog sniffing at the opening of the cooler. When that sniffing stops, she gets her brother out of the cooler and finds her mother. Mom tells her to get her brother into the canoe and go for a ride and that she and dad will meet up with them.
What has actually happened is awful. And keep in mind that Anna is only 5 years old and Stick is only 2.
Anna gets them in the canoe and from there scary things happen.
This is written in the wording of a 5 year old taking on the wilderness, taking care of herself and her brother.
This was a very unique concept. You feel so helpless reading this little girl's thoughts, trying to remember that she is as young as she is.
Wow - it was tense reading this book! The story is told through the eyes of a 5 yr old, and that makes it a bit challenging to read at certain spots throughout the book. Overall, the book was fairly easy to read and I was able to finish it in 2 days.
The beginning scene of the bear and the campsite is suspenseful.
