The Shark Callers
by Eric Campbell
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Author: Eric CampbellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-10-31
ISBN: 0152000070
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
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Book Review: The Shark Calllers a review by Chris
Summary: 4 Stars
"Kaleku was hurled out. He spun briefly, arms and legs flailing as uselessly as a rag doll's, and plunged, with a crash, into the sea.Thrashing to the surface, he had time only to see the fins racing toward him.
He screamed only once before he died.
And as he died, a vivid picture flashed across his brain.
A picture of a stone shark, goast-gray under the moon, it's carved mouth open, its white teeth luminous in the cold light.
And on its teeth, a scarlet stain of blood."
I highly encourage you to read this wonderful book called The Shark Callers written and illustrated by Eric Campbell.
This book is about a boating family. The family has a son named Andy, a daughter named Sally, and a mother and father. They know that Quintana, their boat, will look after them. But the island they are banked on, has a volcano ready to erupt. The island was on Purple alert. The next one would be Red alert. Evacuate!!
There is also another story going on at the same time, but only in the past. Fifty years before the Thomsons had arrived at the island, Old Sea Bird and Kaleku were Shark Callers. The top of Old Sea Bird's hut was covered with shark fins from which he had hunted sharks, and growing in the back of it was brus, or tobacco. The Shark Callers made canoes from wood, rattles made of coconut shells called larungs, and floats made for snaring sharks, called kasamans. Their problem was that there was a great tsunami, or tidal wave, coming their way. But you will have to read the book yourself to find out what happens.
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