{"id":2097,"date":"2014-10-10T16:51:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2014-10-10T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T20:51:03","slug":"187h-boy-in-plane-crashes-in-canada-lake-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/187h-boy-in-plane-crashes-in-canada-lake-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"187H: Boy in plane crashes in Canada lake 1950&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read a small boy&#8217;s novel in 1950&#8217;s about a boy travelling to see his father on a Cessna? (or other small plane) which crashes in a Canadian lake. He befriends an otter (from memory) which catches fish for him, has some adventures and eventually escapes the situation. I have forgotten most of the details but think that he dove down into plane to recover things and had a run-in with a bear. Best thing I can recall is the front cover drawing of the young boy sitting on the lakeside with the otter beside him.<\/p>\n<p>It is definitely not &#8220;Hatchet&#8221; by Paulsen which appears to be a very similar plot published much later in 1987. I have not read this book but assume it is not a reprint of the original book I am recalling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a small boy&#8217;s novel in 1950&#8217;s about a boy travelling to see his father on a Cessna? (or other small plane) which crashes in a Canadian lake. He befriends an otter (from memory) which catches fish for him, has some adventures and eventually escapes the situation. I have forgotten most of the details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}