What I thought of the book My Side of the mountain is a book about a boy who challenges the world in the Catskill Mountains living off the land at his grandfather's old ruined farm. My thoughts on this book were stellar not only is this my favorite genre of book it is also the way the author wrote it that was significant. The main character Sam Gribley was a teen around 13 years old who ran away from home. Along the way, with his journey, he meets many people and animals such as Bando the thief who Sam thought was running from police, Jessie coon James the raccoon that lives near Sam's hollowed tree and his pet bird frightful that he stole from his mother off the side of a cliff. The whole plot of this book was amazingly interesting and significant to me I very much enjoyed the way the author brought the book to life and how he made just your ordinary boy into a survival expert. My side of the Mountain may have come off as cheesy to many people due to the use of pictures in the book However I thought that the hand-drawn photos added to the book, giving me personally a much brighter idea of how the surrounding forests would have been viewed. The book was interesting possibly showing the reason why it was bizarre that I found that the pictures would correlate directly to the image in my head. Due to that I would give Jean Craig a huge compliment to his writing, as not only did he form clear image but he also engaged me and in a way forced me to read deeper and deeper into the book.
How it's going to affect me in the future In the future, I would like to do more stuff like what same Gribley did. Going and camping in the thick woods has always sounded interesting to me. However, when doing that I plan to use some of the skills that he taught me in the book, using notes like such as never forgetting to leave an air flap in my tent to not asphyxiate myself, Widling barbs into wood fishhooks and using cross-hatched wood for making floating rafts. When in Peru I kept on seeing similar methods analogous to the ones that jean had mentioned in the book at places like L...
