SuitabookThe Talking Earth
Jean Craighead George
- Reading
- You could read together at a pace that leaves room to talk about what Billie trusts, and how her observations in the Everglades relate to the stories she has heard.
- Themes
- Doubt, tradition and understanding: Billie questions legends about talking animals and earth spirits, then goes into the Everglades and begins to understand that her people’s world can offer answers. The plot presents listening to the land and animals as important to Billie’s survival and growing understanding; this supports a bounded reading that the story affirms attention to her community’s knowledge.
- Worth knowing
- Billie has learnt about pollution and nuclear war as dangers.