Frightful's Mountain

It took me awhile longer to get into this one, because no people show up in it until about 60 pages in. Until then, it's told from the point of view of the animals. The style is very reminiscent of The Underneath. This book has an unusually strong political agenda for children's lit, but I didn't mi......more

This is my least favorite book in the trilogy, because it mainly focuses on the peregrine falcon, Frightful, and Sam is barely in the story at all. If you are interested in falconry at all, you would LOVE this book! Very informative and dramatic, as Frightful learns to survive in the wild, struggles......more

I enjoyed this book. It is written from the falcon's perspective for the most part. The only issue I have with this book is that there are a few mentions of cellular phones and because the first book was written in 1959 the timeline doesn't always add up. There would have to be at least a 30 year ju......more

This book is very different from the first two because most of the story is told from the perspective of Frightful and sometimes Mole, the dog. There are also a bunch of people POV and it felt like too many. It leans a lot more heavily into animal conservation, birds of prey in particular, and there......more

This was such a lovely book! As a kid, I was a huge fan of My Side of the Mountain. Unfortunately, I can't recall if I read The Other Side of the Mountain, but I'll bet I did. :) Coming to this book late in life, with an unusual and interesting foreward by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was quite something......more