Lampman, Evelyn Sibley. Crazy Creek. Doubleday & Co., 1948.
Reason read: When I was a child, every January I would chose a stack of books to read over the course of a year. This is in memory of that child.
In a nutshell, a young girl named Judy takes a refurbished boat out on Crazy Creek without knowing the river or how to control the boat. After she crashes the boat, two boys rescue her. Strangely enough, they have her last name. Stranger still, she recognizes one of them as her grandfather.
Confessional: when I realized how the ending was shaping up I couldn’t help but be reminded of the Wizard of Oz. I hope that wasn’t too much of a spoiler alert, but the conclusions are very similar. It also explained why Judy was never overtly homesick while away from her modern day family. She is away from her true family for a year and yet the only time she gets weepy is at Christmas, remembering their traditions.
Author fact: Lampman was born in 1908 and died in 1980.
Book trivia: Crazy Creek is not the most popular of books written by Lampman. The Shy Stegosaurus gets more attention. I’m not reading that one for the Challenge.
BookLust Twist: from Book Lust in the introduction (p x).
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