Frightful's Daughter

I guess this book wasn't really what I was expecting. I saw the lovely cover illustration and thought it would be a story about a falcon growing up in the wild, which it is, but only partly. Falconry (using trained birds of prey to hunt small animals) is a major part of this story. Poachers who take......more

Frightful's Daughter is about 30 pages with one to a few small paragraphs per page. This book is part of a series of books about Frightful the falcon in the Catskill Mountains. In this one, it focuses on the development and life of Frightful's daughter, Oksi. Oksi's two brothers are stolen when they......more

Frightful’s Daughter By Jean C. George Reviewed By Justin Imagine if you were a newborn falcon left alone in your nest. Would you be scared or happy? What would you do? According to Jean Craighead George, the baby falcon is afraid, and too frightened to move. The story begins with three falcons being bo......more

"Frightful's Daughter" by author Jean Craighead George tells the fun tale about Frightful's daughter in this short story. Frightful is Sam's falcon from Jean's series "My Side of the Mountain". Frightful's daughter is named Oksi, and she likes to do things her way. A fun story with a good ending. 201......more

Nice book. The story is interesting and told pretty well. There are falcon facts scattered throughout the book and I definitely learned a thing or two by the end. I believe there are other books about Frightful that might have added depth to this story, if I had read them first. The illustrations ar......more