The bear

by

288 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2015 by Thorpe.

ISBN:
978-1-4448-2360-8
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OCLC Number:
905940018

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2 stars (1 review)

Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is almost three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. But one night, Anna becomes aware of a shadow outside the tent: something hairy, sniffing - and moving. The next thing she knows, Mummy is yelling, Daddy is screaming, then she and Stick are hauled outside and thrown down. As the terrified children huddle together, they hear roaring, growling - then the sounds of a huge black dog cracking bones ... Alone in the woods, Anna and Stick must somehow survive, battling hunger, the elements - and the black dog on their trail ...

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reviewed The bear by Claire Cameron

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2 stars

it's a tale of 2 kids surviving a bear attack that kills their parents and the hook is supposed to be that the older of the two, the 5yo, is the narrator. this is my first complaint: she wasn't a consistent child - naming the coleman cooler like a friend but sophisticated enough to view her parent's marriage troubles; having a wide vocabulary when it suited the prose, but losing it just as conveniently. I also disliked a few of the side plots - the parent's trial separation, and the girl's obsession with Barbie. lastly, the therapist treating the girl after she gets back to civilization wouldn't have been so quick to interpret the child's drawing; they are trained for goodness sakes!

Subjects

  • Missing children
  • Fiction
  • Wilderness survival
  • Families
  • Bear attacks
  • Camping
  • Survival

Places

  • Ontario
  • Algonquin Provincial Park