Rascal, Sterling North
Rascal, Sterling North
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Rascal

Author: Sterling North

Narrator: Jim Weiss

Unabridged: 4 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/26/2002


Synopsis

Who could resist living for a year with a raccoon who is just about your best friend?

In this delightful memoir, Sterling North recalls his year with Rascal--a very mischievous and resourceful raccoon. Sterling, a boy of 11, watches in amazement as this baby raccoon, barely the size of Sterling's hand, instinctively washes everything before eating it. Sterling knows that every night Rascal will sneak into the house by hooking his claws onto the back screen door and head straight for Sterling's bed! Virtually everywhere Sterling goes, Rascal is there, and life is filled with one adventure after another.

About The Author

Sterling North was born into a family of poets and was himself first published at age eight. He went on to have a career as a journalist and literary editor of several well-respected newspapers. After writing the autobiographical Rascal, he won a host of literary awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on May 04, 2018

I read this as a kid & didn't really appreciate it since it was pretty much like my own childhood in many ways, even though mine took place about 50 years later. Reading it now, in this age of child repression, helicopter parents, & restrictive laws is both a treat & terribly sad. My grandson will n......more

Goodreads review by The Dusty Jacket on July 29, 2020

One pleasant afternoon in 1918, eleven-year-old Sterling North, along with his Saint Bernard, Wowser, and friend, Oscar Sunderland, were in Wentworth’s woods. There, in the hollow base of a rotten stump, hid a mother raccoon and her litter of four kits. Angered and frightened by Wowser’s intrusive d......more

Goodreads review by mussolet on September 20, 2015

"Rascal" is an American classic, telling the story of how the boy Sterling found a little raccoon in the spring of 1818, and took him on as a pet. While it took me a while to get into, due to the very old language style, and the fact that an adult was writing down memories of his childhood - therefo......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on February 14, 2021

Nothing I could write could begin to touch Jeanette's wonderful review of this book...so I shall re-direct you to that.... [URL not allowed] I would just add that for those of us who find it unpleasant - there is quite a lot about fishing in this memoir.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on March 02, 2020

Dad and kids both liked this beautiful book. Warm, rich, kind, interesting. Historical, instructive, a time-traveling machine. Kept kids quiet. Kept Dad coming back for more. There were inequities and wickednesses happening in that America; but there were beauties, too, beauties that only an untamed......more