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Shadow of the wild hare
"You'll never make it tame. It is a wild thing." Rosie and Skip learn that strange Jacoba is right about the rare little animal that Rosie rescued.
96 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 1986
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January 2, 2011
I read this novel a while ago, and still reread it often it is absolutely one of my ALL time favourite books. I must think about it once a week. Even more so when I was driving back and forth to the Eastern Cape. Set in the Karoo the story concerns a young girl name Rosie who lives on a farm with her two brothers, her mother and her father. while out with her father helping him to dip their sheep she finds a wild hare tethered up in a barn-the hare will be used to make Muti but Thanti Myakisu; the jackal trapper. Feeling sorry for the hare she releases it and takes it home with her to keep as a pet. How ever she knows that the hare can never be tamed and so she sets out to let him go free. A great short story and a wonderful children's story. With wonderful illustrations it really gives a feel for living on a farm in the Karoo.
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