SuitabookStormy
Jim Kjelgaard
- Reading
- Read alongside the child at a comfortable pace, pausing when Allan’s family situation or the pair’s troubles arise. Invite the reader to describe what happens before discussing what loyalty means here.
- Themes
- Friendship and mutual support: Allan and Stormy meet beside a wilderness lake and help each other through good and bad experiences. Their bond is presented positively, with loyalty and mutual help at its centre.
- Determination in adversity: The pair face several kinds of storms and are described as refusing to quit. Persistence is clearly valued in the broad presentation of their shared challenges.
- Family separation and imprisonment: Allan is living alone while his father serves a prison term. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Allan’s father is serving a prison term, and Allan is living alone.