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CBC Showcase: Native America
Dogsong combines the age-old search for identity with the need to understand a youngster's ancestral background.
by Gary Paulsen
Among the most celebrated adventure stories in modern children's literature, this novel paired with Hatchet explores the wilderness experience from two strikingly different perspectives. In Dogsong, Russel Susskit begins his journey deliberately. An Eskimo teenager, he heads north by dogsled, searching to find himself by rediscovering the old ways of his people. For Brian, the hero of Hatchet, it all starts with a terrible accident. The small plane he shares with a seasoned pilot crashes in the Canadian wilderness. The pilot is dead and Brian, a suburban kid with almost no outdoor experience, must fend for himself for fifty-four days. Read separately, each is a haunting tale of personal survival. Read together, they brilliantly illuminate the universal experience of coming into maturity.
Ages 8-12
ISBN: 0-6898-3960-X
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Athenuem Books for Young Readers
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