What They Said... "Wildlife Cameraman"

 

What they said… Wildlife Cameraman

 

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Wildlife Cameraman appeared in hardcover from New York’s Holiday House in April 1957. It was the first of four of Kjelgaard’s books to be illustrated by Sam Savitt. The others, all published after Kjelgaard’s death in 1959, were:  Fawn in the Forest and Other Animal Stories (1962), Two Dogs and Horse (1964), and Dave and His Dog, Mulligan (1966). Kjelgaard’s twenty-second novel, Wildlife Cameraman received exceptional reviews across the industry, including a starred review from Kirkus, calling it “[s]harply focused” and “[capturing] all the thrills and satisfactions, even of photography’s more routine moments, and, in the Kjelgaard manner, attaches them to a tight plot closely related to the technique involved.”

The write-up, from the Nov. 1957 issue of Children’s Digest, for Wildlife Cameraman is below.

 

 

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