A very funny and cheerfully subversive chapter book about a monster who eats children--until one day he makes a friend. The Yark loves children . . . with the love of a gourmand! This hairy monster dreams of child buffets--ham of boy, orphan gratin, breaded babies, girl rillettes. But he h
The Book of Yaak
✍ Scribed by Rick Bass
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Houghton Mifflin Co
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0395877466
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, and even a handful of humans. But its magic may not be enough to save it from the forces threatening it now. In The Book of Yaak Rick Bass captures the soul of the valley itself, and he shows how, if places like the Yaak are lost, so too will be the human riches of mystery and imagination.
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