08-21-2008, 09:36 PM | #1 |
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Jim Kjelgaard
anyone read his books as a kid?
Many of his books are about dogs, from the point of view of dogs. American classics. |
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Given the amount of time dogs spend sleeping, eating things of unknown provenance, sniffing the posteriors of other dogs and licking themselves, I am sure these are literary classics.
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I first read it as a very young lad. I remember my fourth grade teacher calling me a liar when I said I'd read it sometime ago. She was a really awful person in many ways. Anyway, the first time I read it I didn't understand irony. I puzzled for the longest time over that first sentence, "Buck did not read the newspapers." I thought, "Of course, he's a dog. What's the point!" But that opening drew me in, and changed me.
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dang, I was hoping an old fart like you was going to say, "Big Red, one of my favorites!"
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for your younger kids, i.e. 5th grade or below:
http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Called-Kit...10/ref=ed_oe_p This became a "hit" book when I was a kid, and won some awards. In the tradition of tales of dogs and their young companions such as Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller. |
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Both Kjelgaard and London committed suicide. Maybe men that relate better to beasts than persons have a hard time of it.
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For kids who like tales of the wilderness and wild animals this is a great one I loved as a kid, a wolverine's point of view: http://www.amazon.com/Carcajou-Caxto...9357476&sr=1-1
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Jack London was clearly a Christopher McCandless wannabe.
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