{"id":37,"date":"2009-04-10T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-04-10T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T18:29:00","slug":"song-of-the-wild-by-allan-w-eckert-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2009\/04\/song-of-the-wild-by-allan-w-eckert-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Wild by Allan W. Eckert &#8211; 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwsalticidco-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0595089917&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS1=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;float:right\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>This book was described on the <a href=\"http:\/\/project-wombat.org\/\">Project Wombat<\/a> list, and to my surprise we had it at the library (it hadn&#8217;t circulated since 1994, but it&#8217;s a memorial so we kept it anyway). The concept is fascinating &#8211; a boy can project his consciousness into any animal, bird, or insect, and share its experience &#8211; but the writing doesn&#8217;t do the idea justice. It&#8217;s a strange book &#8211; it should fit into the tradition of great fantasy fiction like the animal parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0399225021?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwsalticidco-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0399225021\">The Sword in the Stone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwsalticidco-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0399225021\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, but it&#8217;s actually on the dry side. Caleb&#8217;s life in the human world is downer realistic fiction, and his experiences in the animal kingdom don&#8217;t feel involving. It&#8217;s partly the distant third person narration. The overall impression is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingfeatures.com\/features\/comics\/mtrail\/aboutMaina.php\">Mark Trail<\/a> come to life. Apparently it was pitched as an adult novel, but it falls between two stools &#8211; it&#8217;s not involving enough for teens, but it doesn&#8217;t feel like a standard novel either. I&#8217;m glad I read it once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was described on the Project Wombat list, and to my surprise we had it at the library (it hadn&#8217;t circulated since 1994, but it&#8217;s a memorial so we kept it anyway). The concept is fascinating &#8211; a boy can project his consciousness into any animal, bird, or insect, and share its experience &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}