And then died of worms, I assume. :P Seal is not one of those things you'd want to eat raw. (Porcupine is, if that's ever something you need to know).
The thing that really got me is HE'D ONLY BEEN MAROONED A DAY! And, he had oysters to eat. Somehow, raw seal was better than raw oysters. (???) But porcupine is safe to eat raw? Huh.
I'm disappointed to hear anyone would write a bad Halifax explosion book. There's so much already-interesting-enough-history there, you'd think they could refrain from inserting Time Travel.
Ohh, this one was a sequel to a time travel book about the Frank Slide. And time travel can be done well (like Tom's Midnight Garden, or on the adult side of things, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis), but this was one of those books where it's just a way to just explain everything through the eyes of a modern character. Also, the dialogue was impossibly clunky, and it was full of characters randomly telling people they'd just met their whole life stories.
One of the most recent Dear Canada books is also about the Halifax Explosion (I think the title is No Safe Harbour, but the author escapes me right now), and it was pretty good, though I think that if the author had left more of the main character's family alive, she wouldn't have had to gloss over the emotional trauma at the end, which annoyed me. I've been told that the best kids' book to read on the Halifax Explosion is Irish Chain by Barbara Haworth-Attard. It's on my (very long) mental to-read list.
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The thing that really got me is HE'D ONLY BEEN MAROONED A DAY! And, he had oysters to eat. Somehow, raw seal was better than raw oysters. (???) But porcupine is safe to eat raw? Huh.
I'm disappointed to hear anyone would write a bad Halifax explosion book. There's so much already-interesting-enough-history there, you'd think they could refrain from inserting Time Travel.
Ohh, this one was a sequel to a time travel book about the Frank Slide. And time travel can be done well (like Tom's Midnight Garden, or on the adult side of things, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis), but this was one of those books where it's just a way to just explain everything through the eyes of a modern character. Also, the dialogue was impossibly clunky, and it was full of characters randomly telling people they'd just met their whole life stories.
One of the most recent Dear Canada books is also about the Halifax Explosion (I think the title is No Safe Harbour, but the author escapes me right now), and it was pretty good, though I think that if the author had left more of the main character's family alive, she wouldn't have had to gloss over the emotional trauma at the end, which annoyed me. I've been told that the best kids' book to read on the Halifax Explosion is Irish Chain by Barbara Haworth-Attard. It's on my (very long) mental to-read list.