SPIKE: The Story of a White

by Robert M. McClung ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1952

Fall is good forest time and careful young nature watchers can look for Spike as he appears half way through this spring-to -spring chronicle of his life. Along the lines of the other books (STRIPE: The Story of a SPHINX: The Story of a ) the author takes Spike and his mother on a seasonal round of living and learning that includes feeding on the lilly pads, romping in the meadow and a full share of escapes- from hunters, a rattlesnake, a forest fire, birds of prey and so forth. In the fall they meet Spike's father who stays with them for a while presumably to bring on the new fawn. Two more things about the book: it is far less humanized than Jane Tompkins' The Black Bear Twins it adheres to the cyclical and emotional patterns in Salten's Bamb

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1952

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1952

Categories: CHILDREN'S