Summary
A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Summary
A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Summary
A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author Notes
Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York on January 30, 1931. He served in the United States Air Force and attended the University of Dayton and Ohio State University. He was a historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. He wrote over 40 books during his lifetime including A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood, Wild Season, The Silent Sky, The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, and A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, which were all nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. He received the Newbery Honor Book Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. He also wrote almost all of the scripts for television's Wild Kingdom and adapted The Frontiersmen into the play Tecumseh! He died of prostate cancer on July 7, 2011 at the age of 80.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York on January 30, 1931. He served in the United States Air Force and attended the University of Dayton and Ohio State University. He was a historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. He wrote over 40 books during his lifetime including A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood, Wild Season, The Silent Sky, The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, and A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, which were all nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. He received the Newbery Honor Book Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. He also wrote almost all of the scripts for television's Wild Kingdom and adapted The Frontiersmen into the play Tecumseh! He died of prostate cancer on July 7, 2011 at the age of 80.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York on January 30, 1931. He served in the United States Air Force and attended the University of Dayton and Ohio State University. He was a historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. He wrote over 40 books during his lifetime including A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood, Wild Season, The Silent Sky, The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, and A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, which were all nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. He received the Newbery Honor Book Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. He also wrote almost all of the scripts for television's Wild Kingdom and adapted The Frontiersmen into the play Tecumseh! He died of prostate cancer on July 7, 2011 at the age of 80.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Booklist Review
Gr. 5-9. In a fictionalized account of an actual incident, Ben's special ability to communicate with animals allows him to be cared for by a mother badger when he gets lost in the prairies of Manitoba.
Booklist Review
Gr. 5-9. In a fictionalized account of an actual incident, Ben's special ability to communicate with animals allows him to be cared for by a mother badger when he gets lost in the prairies of Manitoba.
Booklist Review
Gr. 5-9. In a fictionalized account of an actual incident, Ben's special ability to communicate with animals allows him to be cared for by a mother badger when he gets lost in the prairies of Manitoba.