Jacobson, J. R. (2011). Small as an elephant. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. Much as Jack loves his mother, he also knows that she can be quite unpredictable. Still, he would never have dreamed that their vacation would end with her missing and him alone in a campsite in Maine far from their Boston home. He waits, hoping she will return with the car and take them home, but when she fails to turn up, and he is running out of food and options, he decides to get home on his own. Jack's predicament is made even more challenging because he cannot turn to the authorities for help since he knows they will consider her to be an unfit mother and remove him from her care. As Jack tries to dodge most suspicious adults, he must fend for himself and find a way back home, a path that leads him to spend the night in a mall store, and to a brief encounter in a bank vault.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Small as an Elephant
Jacobson, J. R. (2011). Small as an elephant. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. Much as Jack loves his mother, he also knows that she can be quite unpredictable. Still, he would never have dreamed that their vacation would end with her missing and him alone in a campsite in Maine far from their Boston home. He waits, hoping she will return with the car and take them home, but when she fails to turn up, and he is running out of food and options, he decides to get home on his own. Jack's predicament is made even more challenging because he cannot turn to the authorities for help since he knows they will consider her to be an unfit mother and remove him from her care. As Jack tries to dodge most suspicious adults, he must fend for himself and find a way back home, a path that leads him to spend the night in a mall store, and to a brief encounter in a bank vault.
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