The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
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Book Reviews of The Incredible Journey
Book Review: GREAT for family reading
Summary: 5 Stars
You want to see a big, tough kid cry over a happy ending? Read this to your family.
It's a quick book -- only 11 chapters.
For a book with almost no dialog, the story really moves along. There is captivating action and very good development of the animals' "personalities." There are 12 or 13 illustrations in my edition (the one pictured here), all set at the beginning of the chapters and providing a little foreshadowing. I'm a good one for reading a couple of chapters, showing the next illustration, and then closing the book until next time.
It's summer, so I had the kids keep a vocabulary list -- this book uses beautiful language, and the repetition of some adjectives and verbs makes it a little better for young readers -- they see the same words once or twice in a book, they learn them better. I also had the talker-child illustrate some scenes for us, and the tinkering-child write up some sentences each day. Etc. It's summer -- I love to see what they can do.
The reunion scenes at the end are very moving, even for grown ups. Great book -- share it with your kids!
Book Review: Incredible!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was Incredible. It's about a person who owns 2 dogs, and a cat and they go on a journey and the owner and the kids become sad becauses they can't find them. One day, they came across a bear and one of dogs atacked the bear by himself. They were traveling and traveling though the forest. Then, they meet a hunter that was going to kill them. They ran though the forest to escape the hunter. They ran and ran and they escaped the hunter.
One of the dog fell in a creek by acciendt. The cat went in to save the dog. The dog and the cat were both cold and wet.
Then one day, the cat cames home but the dogs didn't come home. So the family kept searching for them. The kids were sad, too. The dogs were missing.The kids were on a liner on the gulf.
When the kids got off the liner, they found out the dogs came home! The kids started to hug and kiss the dogs.
This book is sad and action. If your a dog or cat lover, I think you might like this book but, if you read it, read it again if you thought my review helped!
Book Review: It really is an incredible journey
Summary: 4 Stars
In the Incredible Journey by Shelia Burnford 3 animals go on a dangerous current owner (John Longbridge) is not clear but they somehow know their former owner is coming back.
Three animals venture from their own home off to their old home and encounter many dangers along the way. Not long after they leave they meet a bear who starts scratching and swiping at Bodger the bull terrier. Then a couple of days later they meet helpful Indians who feed the animals and clean Bodger's wounds. After a few hours they leave the Indians. When the animals come to a river Luath gets across it fine but has to encourage Bodger to come over. Once Bodger comes over the cat won't cross the river. When he finally does the dam breaks and Luath and Tao are swept away. They meet many other exciting dangers that I'll let you read about.
My favorite character was Bodger because he was the funniest.
I would recommend this book to 8-12 yr. olds because of challenging vocabulary. I would also recommend this to animal lovers and adventure readers.
Book Review: Call of the Wild - love conquers all
Summary: 3 Stars
A classic children's book - or is it? Sheila Burnford (1918-84) has said she never wrote it to be a children's book, and indeed it's written in a very realistic manner - no talking animals here. The main theme is loyalty - pet loyalty to their masters, to one another, and human loyalty to animals. It's all very saccharin sweet. A more believable story would have shown the animals internal struggle between returning to the wild (going feral), versus the safety and comforts of remaining captive under human care (one of the great themes of literature). Alas, Burnford is not that kind of writer, and anyway Jack London did it best in The Call of the Wild. Interestingly though, Burnford did adopt London's technique of describing the dogs actions and mannerisms as a third party observer, and not delve into the animals thoughts (such as in Black Beauty). The more I think about it, the more London's influence seems apparent, Burnford is sort of like London's better half (who was somewhat dark). For what it is, the story is appealing, love conquers all, it was Burnford's most famous work and spawned at least 2 well known movie adaptations.Book Review: The Incredible Journey Review
Summary: 3 Stars
I think that the Incredible Journey Book is really good. I like it because it has lots of adventure and lots of different points of view. The beginning is pretty boring but gets exiting soon, like around the setting change. The things I don't like are the excessive phone-talk, and I-know-what-will-happen-feeling that it gives you. Overall I would rate it between Harry Potter and your barely-better-than-average book that you will find. The fun of it is that you never know the detailed parts outcome which has great effect in this book. I think it is very original to make the characters split up for some time and rejoin the others. I like the lazy feeling that I'm not interested. See you later -- don't care about friendship. These parts are very amusing. It may sound predictable of the ending but it is so exiting that you never consider thinking of a different part of the book because it's so addicting. I recommend this book to public readers.
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