Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen
Autor de Adopted by an Owl: The True Story of Jackson the Owl
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Bath, Michigan, USA
- Educación
- Michigan State University
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 185
- Popularidad
- #117,260
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 17
As a fox lover, and a reader with a decided predilection for touching animal tales, I was quite excited to read Saving Samantha, even going so far as to convince my local public library to order a copy, as none of the libraries in our county system had it in their collections. In the end, however, I think that I preferred the artwork to the text, which I found somewhat disjointed - perhaps as a result of being based on Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen's journal, kept while she was raising Samantha? - and not as emotionally resonant as I had expected it to be. I don't want to overstate the case, since this was still a moderately enjoyable (and informative) book, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to young animal lovers and fox fans, but I think Cherie Mason's Wild Fox: A True Story, which contains a similar tale of a woman nursing a wild fox back to health, is a superior work.… (más)