- ISBN13: 9780826328090
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Product Description
The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.“Little Tree” as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course.Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of w… More >>
#1 by Anonymous on February 1, 2010 - 9:01 pm
The Education of Little Tree was an awful book! It was so boring that it was almost impossible for me to read it. I do not recommend this book to anyone.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on February 1, 2010 - 11:03 pm
The Education Of Little Tree is one of those books that I will always recommend…not to read!
I hated, wait, hate is such a strong word, but it truly describes the way I felt about this book. I have read many critics’ opinions on this book after reading it, I agree strongly with almost everything that a lot of the critics have said about this book. I thought it could have been written a little, I mean a lot better. Every time that I start reading a book for school, I think `Oh great, another pointless and boring book’, and there are only some books that I have read that have contradicted that. The Education of Little Tree was not one of them. I may have used a lot of powerful words in this discussion, but that is the way I feel about books like this one. I really hope that we don’t have to read books like this one during this school year.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Real Name on February 2, 2010 - 12:03 am
By accident I was thinking of watching the film of this and read a review about it which lead me to read about Forrest Carter (Google search). Being an Indian by origin (from India though born and bred in London) I am fascinated by how odd peoples’s ideas of what an Indian is – and the minimal effort they make to actually find out from genuine Indian writing or history (it is highly debatable from what I have read whether Asa Carter had any Cherokee lineage or connection and wasn’t an orphan as one reviewer appears to believe, though he seems to have come from the same area as the book is set in). This includes asking me though I don’t claim in fact to know that much but at least I have read some original stuff.
I wouldn’t want to read this book as I am sure there are a lot of other books that would give me the message of tolerance, respect, etc (in fact I have read a lot as I am that way inclined). Equally there are lots of books of genuine scholarship about the history/anthropology of the native american people and just like books about India or Indian history people don’t want to read them because they think they are HARD WORK. I have some sympathy with the position that you read the book, not the writer (cf. Celine, Kipling and arguably every book written by a man about women up to the mid-20th century) but there are a hell of a lot of books that I have read and would rather read than this one.
BTW: A lot of the younger people’s reviews are good, especially the one that says the book doesn’t make sense and doesn’t have a point! Out of the mouths of babes…
P.S. One of my favourite TV series is “Eyes on the Prize” – has there ever been an equivalent about any or all of the Native American people (accepting TV footage would be difficult to find)? Or is all populist/popular work on this subject “faction”?
P.P.S. Nowhere have a I found reference to a single statement from Asa (Forrest) Carter that he was not racist (or not racist any more) despite his public profile after Josey Wales and Little Tree.
P.P.P.S. Why does the author come up as Rennard Strickland? Is the publisher trying to mislead us or is it a genuine mistake? They make money either way…
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Coffy6 on February 2, 2010 - 12:54 am
This is the most poorly written book that I have ever read. American Indians should be insulted. This book was actually written by a former Ku Klux Klansman to mock an entire race of people. There is no merit or salvation in this book as other readers have claimed. And I suspect that they liked the book because they are racists as well. This is a deplorable effort from a man who is not worth any more of my valuable time.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by O. Reducha on February 2, 2010 - 1:43 am
This book was assigned school reading. I found it rather boring and the language used in the story became annoying after a while. Not recommended.
Rating: 2 / 5