Today I will be talking about a book called A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.

You might be thinking that a little boy with a bear can be quite dangerous but in this book the boy and the bear are friends. And you also might be thinking that a bear is heavy and the boat could sink but its not an ordinary Bear, it talk and build boats too ( and he is the captain of the boat too ). The boat is called The Harriet.

The story revolves around a boy who wants to go "just over to the other side" and gets into a boat that is captained by a bear. The bear, who at first appears to be a good and an experienced captain - but later as we go further into the story we find out that he’s not very good at it,.

The whole time reading the book I was thinking the boy is lucky that the bear can talk otherwise the whole time the boy would have nobody to talk to.

The boy and the bear face a giant sea monster that nearly ate the bear (at one point the boy was shivering with fear). They nearly lost the boat once.

However, it does happen once when they went through a storm with really heavy rain and this time they lost The Harriet and did not get it back. Losing The Harriet made the bear sad since it was the only boat that he had made and it was a long memory for him that he had lost for ever(The Harriet was all broken and not to be made again)

I would not like it if I Iost something that I had worked so hard in building and something that I had lots and lots of memories of.

For a large part of the story nothing much happens, just the boy sitting in the boat with nothing to do while the bear happily rows, sleeps, eats, and has tea.

There was no explanation for this situation and no conclusion. It just happens to be a big part of the story. Yet there always was something that kept me reading and finding out what would eventually happen to them. And that's not the entire story - there is a plot and eventful things do happen - but it's largely a story of aloneness and inactivity.

Let me tell you a little fun fact about the author David Shelton. When he was about twelve year old his English teacher, Mrs.Ball, saw the doodles on his exercise book and said, “You know, David, when you grow up you could write books and draw pictures for them too” She was probably joking but it happened anyways.

This book teaches us that even in the hardest times like when there was a sea monster that nearly ate the bear or being stuck in sea with no boat(These are some of them from the book but there are lots of hard moments in real life not all at sea) we can still find a way and get through it.

This is a really nice read and I hope you also read this book,