SuitabookHow Angel Peterson Got His Name
Gary Paulsen, Patrick Lawlor
- Reading
- Read together or aloud, pausing after an exploit to separate what makes it funny from what could go wrong in real life.
- Themes
- Risk-taking and comic storytelling: Paulsen's boyhood friends try hazardous stunts, including towing skis behind a fast car and jumping barrels on bikes. The episodes are related in a matter-of-fact tone with comic timing; the risky behaviour supplies the humour, rather than being established as advice.
- Worth knowing
- The adventures involve potentially serious physical danger: car-towed skiing, waterfall and barrel attempts, improvised gliding, bike jumps and an encounter with a live bear.