The Bear by Claire Cameron is fast paced, tense, and has a compelling point of view and narration style. You will not be able to put it down (I promise). It is an edge of your seat read. ( I mean, Mr F is reading it now... and getting him to read anything that doesn't feature car photography is extremely rare... so take that as a serious endorsement!) The Bear is somewhat reminiscent of Room, if you read that (you SHOULD!!), mostly due to the voice of the narrator, which is both cases is a five year old child. In both books the child's voice lends an endearing, naive, and sometimes humorous view on terrifying events. I read Room a year or so ago and think I recommended it on the blog, and it may very well be the last book Mr F ever read in its entirety... so again... its a good read.
For what it is worth, as a mother of a similar aged child I do think the voice of the child narrators in both of these books are interesting and believable.
Just keep in mind, that after The Bear, you may never take your kids camping again.
Here are book trailers for both books...
Room:
WATCH HERE
BOOK SITE HERE
The Bear:
WATCH HERE
BOOK SITE HERE
Read them both!!!
3 comments:
Thanks for the recs! I will be looking into both of these, although you know we are a camping family. Hopefully we still will be after I read these... I will just push down my own anxiety for the sake of everyone's normalcy. Just like I did when we went to the grand canyon and no one seemed too concerned about getting too close to the edge... I hyperventilate just thinking about it.
They are both excellent and would make fantastic movies, if they were able to adapted it while still maintaining the kid's perspective. I think Room is already being made into a movie... maybe.
Camping should be okay for you since your kids are old enough to fend for themselves. The kids are 5 & 2 in the book... it is so intense!!! Read it.
The track star factor should also work in their favor...
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