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Captain Mack
School's tough when you don't quite fit in and the school bully has picked you as his latest target.
And it's especially tough when one of your best friends is an old man who still thinks he is in a POW camp and just wants to go home.
Bravery is clearly called for but does Danny have the right stuff?
Captain Mack is an advanture about heroes and unlikely friendships.
And it's especially tough when one of your best friends is an old man who still thinks he is in a POW camp and just wants to go home.
Bravery is clearly called for but does Danny have the right stuff?
Captain Mack is an advanture about heroes and unlikely friendships.
- GenresChildrens
149 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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December 15, 2016
The story has still been a lingering memory since my primary school days. Revisiting this story decades later, I can appreciate the gall Mr Roy has to give the tale its depressingly hopeless ending. Unlike the stories you read as a kid about kids making great things happen, overcoming the impossible etc, is unrealistic. The protagonist, Danny, though he tries to save his friend from a life a poorly financed nursing homes and a lack of freedom - cannot do anything to prevent the inevitable.
Reading this story as a child of around the same age, I disagreed with the message and booed it away. But, and I'll admit how depressing it sounds, as an adult I can't help but agree that children - with all spirit and will - can do jack to help the Mack.
Appraisals aside, I still found the story to be quiet slow at times, and Danny didn't really make for an interesting protagonist. Upon reading the sequel, Billy Mack's War, I found it hard to believe that Mack, an abusive father decades prior, was now a charming elderly man. The link was a bit of a stretch to believe. Additionally, I felt that this novel suffers from what I call "Wives of Bath syndrome", a children's novel with messages only adults could really understand upon reflecting on their own childhood.
So, should you read this book?
Read it if you want to, I'm not your mum.
Reading this story as a child of around the same age, I disagreed with the message and booed it away. But, and I'll admit how depressing it sounds, as an adult I can't help but agree that children - with all spirit and will - can do jack to help the Mack.
Appraisals aside, I still found the story to be quiet slow at times, and Danny didn't really make for an interesting protagonist. Upon reading the sequel, Billy Mack's War, I found it hard to believe that Mack, an abusive father decades prior, was now a charming elderly man. The link was a bit of a stretch to believe. Additionally, I felt that this novel suffers from what I call "Wives of Bath syndrome", a children's novel with messages only adults could really understand upon reflecting on their own childhood.
So, should you read this book?
Read it if you want to, I'm not your mum.
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