6/29/2023 0 Comments Rascal by Sterling North![]() ![]() During an interlude, Sterling and his father take Rascal on a two-week camping trip. He steals off at night to drain the sugar from ears of neighbors' sweet corn, and develops some vandal habits. Living in a cabin in the southern Wisconsin woods with his father (his mother is dead, sisters married), Sterling-and Wowser-capture a one-pound infant raccoon in the summer of 1918. Sterling, 11, and his father (who lived to be 99) also have a bony reality that does much to keep Rascal's story from collapsing like a vanilla cone on July 4th. Yet, Rascal becomes an engaging character among characters such as Poe-the-Crow and Wowser the 170-pound St. Adults will not be as likely to eat the whole panful as may younger readers. ![]() North's childhood memoir about his pet raccoon Rascal mixes sentiment, nostalgia and treacle in about equal overdoses. ![]()
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