But, I think that with some guidance and discussion I think a kid will understand it is a story and that they should not head out into the woods alone and start trying to live off the land when they are only twelve or so! I know that there is some concern about the message of kids running away from home. While it is set in an atmosphere that predates what today’s youth are familiar with, I still think they will enjoy it and learn something about what us old timers used to read when we were kids (yup, I guess I am getting to be an old timer!) What I think is great about this book is it is one of the classic YA books that I would still recommend to young readers today. But, they were such a big deal and we usually had a whole semester to read one book and write one report.
But, the books were usually under 200 pages and the reports not quite as long as some of the reviews I now write on Goodreads every few days. What is funny is remembering writing book reports back then and they felt like a big deal. I remember drawing a picture of the main character in an outdoor setting for the cover of the report. I even wrote a book report on it back in Middle School. (Ages 9 to 12) -Emilie CoulterĪ recent recommendation of this book reminded me that I read this book many moons ago. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain-a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life.
In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process.
There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going-all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.
Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another few get farther than the end of the block.
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