CanLit Challenge discussion

Wild Animals I Have Known I'm just starting this one (currently reading about Lobo and his wolf pack). I hope it's more happy and inspiring than pathetic and depressing. Apparently it was extremely popular worldwide in its day...

Ernest Thompson Seton

Whoa! Wait for me. I bought this one to read with you. I read it a long time ago and discovered when I read Alissa York's new novel Fauna (wherein York's characters read various animal books, including this one, The Jungle Book, and others, aloud to each other) that I really did not remember much about it. I must have read it as a child. So I'm curious what my adult mind will think of it and whether I'll remember what I thought of it as a kid. I'll start tonight!

Don't worry Pooker, I've only read a few pages in. I've still got a story and the afterword for Viger before I seriously dig in tonight or tomorrow.

I'm still working on this, but it's really tough going for me. I'm not so bad with the stories in which the animals suffer or meet a bad end due to "natural" causes (though I'm still sad), but I really have a problem with human cruelty and disrespect for other animals. Under other circumstances, I'd likely have stopped reading during the story of Lobo and abandoned the book, but since it's a CanLit Challenge book I decided I had to finish it. I've got two and a half stories left to go.

When I'm done, I'll post again and write more about the specific stories (with spoilers). I found your review with its discussion of your childhood memories very interesting. We'll have to have a discussion about anthropomorphism and Disney when I'm done.