CHILDREN'S
Released: April 17, 1979
Just out of junior high school, Joe and his friend Crowbar are hired by Joe's uncle (Joe lives with him in a trailer) to run a dead man's ashes down a dangerous stretch of the Colorado River, traveling by night to avoid Park Service patrols, and to dump the urn of ashes overboard at Lava Falls.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 6, 1978
"Nevertheless, it's good news—and Schoenherr's black-and-white drawings help set the mood,."
When a gravely wounded wolf stumbles up Toklat Ridge, a scouting raven calls out his signal of coming death.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 23, 1978
"Included are maps, reading lists, and a summary of biotic communities."
The ambitious hiker can set off from coast to coast (almost) on the North Country Trail from New York's Adirondacks to North Dakota, where it joins the route of Lewis and Clark.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 1, 1978
"This might be sufficient consolation for Dennis, but it's a weak sort of reward for readers who expect more than a quick hug and a peek at the hermit crab's housing habits."
Bimini islander Dennis would like to have "a boat and a grapple and a net and a bucket AND a fine big hat" so that he can "take good care of himself" like his conch fisherman father.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 1976
"George's gushy, clichéd prose makes this read even worse than it sounds; it's clear that she derives more inspiration from Romulus and Remus than from Romeo and Juliet."
Though Jean George has always had her ups and downs, it's hard to believe that the author of Julie of the Wolves could produce this pulpy drivel.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 20, 1975
"And though no one can fault this author's ecology and woodspersonship, the fast-paced mystery plotting she gave a similar theme in Who Really Killed Cock Robin (KR, 1971) is absent from this more thinly populated and leisurely fish story."
Spinner Shafter—even her name is a reflection of her father's determination to raise a fisherman (though she herself would rather be a dancer)—astounds her relatives and wins the family trophy from Uncle Auggie by hooking a huge cutthroat trout, a variety thought to' have vanished from the area.
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