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	• THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY SHEILA BURNFORD HODDER CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1997 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 80 reviews view larger image
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The Incredible Journey

This is a heartwarming story with discripive phrases throughout. Very enjoyable for both my grandson and myself.

Call of the Wild - love conquers all

A classic children's book - or is it? Sheila Burnford (1918-84) has said she never wrote it to be a children's book, and indeed it's written in a very realistic manner - no talking animals here. The main theme is loyalty - pet loyalty to their masters, to one another, and human loyalty to animals. It's all very saccharin sweet. A more believable story would have shown the animals internal struggle between returning to the wild (going feral), versus the safety and comforts of remaining captive under human care (one of the great themes of literature). Alas, Burnford is not that kind of writer, and anyway Jack London did it best in The Call of the Wild. Interestingly though, Burnford did adopt London's technique of describing the dogs actions and mannerisms as a third party observer, and not delve into the animals thoughts (such as in Black Beauty). The more I think about it, the more London's influence seems apparent, Burnford is sort of like London's better half (who was somewhat dark). For what it is, the story is appealing, love conquers all, it was Burnford's most famous work and spawned at least 2 well known movie adaptations.

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It really is an incredible journey

In the Incredible Journey by Shelia Burnford 3 animals go on a dangerous current owner (John Longbridge) is not clear but they somehow know their former owner is coming back.

Three animals venture from their own home off to their old home and encounter many dangers along the way. Not long after they leave they meet a bear who starts scratching and swiping at Bodger the bull terrier. Then a couple of days later they meet helpful Indians who feed the animals and clean Bodger's wounds. After a few hours they leave the Indians. When the animals come to a river Luath gets across it fine but has to encourage Bodger to come over. Once Bodger comes over the cat won't cross the river. When he finally does the dam breaks and Luath and Tao are swept away. They meet many other exciting dangers that I'll let you read about.

My favorite character was Bodger because he was the funniest.

I would recommend this book to 8-12 yr. olds because of challenging vocabulary. I would also recommend this to animal lovers and adventure readers.

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The Incredible Journey Review

I think that the Incredible Journey Book is really good. I like it because it has lots of adventure and lots of different points of view. The beginning is pretty boring but gets exiting soon, like around the setting change. The things I don't like are the excessive phone-talk, and I-know-what-will-happen-feeling that it gives you. Overall I would rate it between Harry Potter and your barely-better-than-average book that you will find. The fun of it is that you never know the detailed parts outcome which has great effect in this book. I think it is very original to make the characters split up for some time and rejoin the others. I like the lazy feeling that I'm not interested. See you later -- don't care about friendship. These parts are very amusing. It may sound predictable of the ending but it is so exiting that you never consider thinking of a different part of the book because it's so addicting. I recommend this book to public readers.

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The incredible journey

The incredible journey is about three dogs who are left home with mrs oaks when she went to work the two dogs and the cat when to find there owner which is the hunters. When mrs oaks came home she saw that the dogs and the cat where gone she got worred and when to try to find them.Mrs oaks called everyone she nows and asked them if they have seen two dogs and a cat walking down the street every one replied that no one has seen two dogs and a cat.The hunters where on vacation the dogs and the cat had to go threw the woods and they came to river the dogs where going to go threw but the cat refused so the dogs somehow got the cat to go threw they over over the most dangerios hills and the dogs got tired and worn out one of the calapsted and almost died but the cat went out and found food for the dog when the hunters got home mrs oaks told the hunters and they called the game worden and they helped look when the little girl heard a cat meiw and told every one but no else heard then the boy heard it to thats when the cat came out then the dog came out to thats all im going to tell you so i dont give it away.My opinion of this book is this book was boring but thats my opioun.
By Dakota Sanford

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