Little Beaver and the Echo

by Amy MacDonald

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Genres

Children's Books

Collection

Your library

Publication

Puffin Books (1998), Edition: Reprint, 32 pages

Description

Unaware that the voice from across the pond telling him he's lonely is his echo, a little beaver sets out to make a friend of that voice, encountering real animal friends on the way.

User reviews

LibraryThing member suzecate

A lonely beaver hears his own echo one day and believing it to be someone also in want of a friends, travels through the pond habitat in search of the echo. Of course, he never does find the echo, but what he does find is something real and meaningful.

The pond ecosystem is illustrated by Sarah

Fox-Davies in cozy watercolors. This gentle story of friendship is lovely and understated, sweet but saccharine-free. (ages 2-5)

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LibraryThing member wturnbull06

This is a good example of fantasy becuase it has anmials in there real habitat but showing human emotions.
Little beaver is a dynamic charater because he changes from being lonely and not having any friends to finding four and being happy.
Media: Watercolor

LibraryThing member jgabica

Although a fantasy book, children can learn a lot from the lonely beaver and the wise beaver. It is a fantasy because beavers cannot really talk, but in the story they are the main characters. The little beaver is a round character, and we see this by the author and narrator, and his interactions

with the other animals in the book. The little beaver discovers that the voice he heard was the "echo" and the echo always reflects his mood, whether sad like in the beginning or happy when he has friends at the end. Media: Watercolors

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