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Travels With Gannon And Wyatt: Botswana (2010)

by Patti Wheeler(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1608325857 (ISBN13: 9781608325856)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Greenleaf Book Group Press

review 1: This book is sort of a cross between a biography of Gannon and Wyatt and a story. It is related to their actual trip to Botswana. However, the adventure is so fantastical as to hardly be believeable. I think that if it had been treated less like a biography and more like a story, it would have been a better told adventure story. Or if it had been treated more like a biography and less like an adventure story, it would have been more believeable. However, the authors were trying to get it to seem like both types of books and for me it fell flat in both cases. I did like that it showed how twins can be totally different, one loves science, the other loves people. I also liked the fact that I learned quite a bit about a place that I had very little knowledge of. Howev... moreer, I found it hard to believe that parents would just let their sons go off into the African bush for days at a time instead of insisting that they come back once the jeep was stalled out in the river. Most parents would not have let the adventure continue, deeming it too unsafe, so there goes the biographical aspect of the book but it was painted so much as a biography that it was hard to let that go and delve into the adventure.
review 2: I really liked this book. I won it in a book give away. The only problem I had with this book is how they are supposed to be writing a journal of their day but would say something like this "anyway having just survived the lion encounter, I felt that the worst was behind us. I mean really? Is there anything more frightening than a charging lion?I didn`t think so. But as we soon found out there is." They were writing about the past events of that day but kept giving away things that were gonna happen in the future. I feel that their editor did a very poor job. But it was really good .I recommend it for kids that love to explore. The notes section in the back is neat. I would have loved that when I was little less

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