The Return of the Indian (1985)

See my review of the first book, really. Selfish children, stereotypes and racism, people not learning to leave well alone what they can't predict or control... ( )

Its been over a year since Omri has seen Little Bear, Boone, and Bright Stars. Omri puts thier plastic figures in his magical cupboard, and thurns the skeleton key. Everyone is fine... but Little Bear, he is on the base of the cupboard, face down, not moving. Omri panics and quickly puts a nurse into the cupboard, her name is Matron, Matron in only a nurse though not a doctor. In less than half an hour Matron has taken the two bullets out of Little Bear's back and everything turned out to be a sucess. After a few days Little bear is fealing a lot better, and askes Omri if he can go back to his time and fight the French, a formal enemy. He also asked Omri if he could get more troops and get guns too, so Little Bear would definetly defeat the French. After Omri says yes, he scavages for Indian troops and guns, once Omri made the Indian troops real and taught them how to use a gun they were ready for war. Omri send Little Bear's army back into their own time to fight the French. Will Little Bear army win the war or will they all die.

I give The Return of the Indian **** because it was exciting but had a couple of boring parts. The book was good for most of the time, but at some points it was really boring. I still think that Lynne Reid Banks is a good writer but I think that this book could of been a little better. I also think that the first book of this series, Indian in the Cupboard is better than The Return of the Indian because it has a better plot. I don't really like how the book is about only Little Bear wanting to go back home to fight the French. The book would be a lot better if Bright Stars, Little Bear's wife had more to do in the story or even had a fight with Little Bear. In the book Bright Star is practically quiet the hole entire tim and does not do anything exciting. I hope to read the next book of this series, and hopfully it will be the best of the series.

This was a really good book; I had read the first one several years ago and liked it also. This book was right along the same lines as the first, just a different scenario. This book may have had more twists and turns than the first in the series. Omri and Patrick had to put their heads together a little more in this story than the first. I guess the only thing I didn't like in this book or the first was the disrespectful and dishonest behavior of Omri and others in this family. I think the author could have taken care of these issues with a little stronger discipline by Omri's parents, but overall it was a good read. ( )

This is one that really should be read at some point after the original book. Omri awakens his plastic Native American/ real life Native American, Little Bear and discovers that he has been injured in a battle recently. He gets help for Little Bear, but then Little Bear asks for help battling his enemies. Omri and his friend Patrick face the challenge of knowing how to help Little Bear without playing God. There is an additional threat to Omri in the real world- can he use the people from the cupboard for help? ( )

The Return of the Indian

In the Return of the Indian, Omri and his family move to a new neighborhood. When he lived in his old house, he had a plastic Indian named Little Bear that he can bring to life. In his new neighborhood, he wrote a story about Little Bear, and he brings Little Bear back to life, again. Omri brings Little Bear back to tell him about the story he wrote. When Little Bear comes back, they have new adventures, like meeting new people, and facing great dangers. One of the greatest dangers is when Omri goes to Little Bear’s time, in the middle of the war, and gets burnt badly. After the war, when Omri and Patrick, his best friend, bring back the soldiers from the war, the nurse Matron takes care of them. While everyone is sleeping, robbers come in. Omri wakes up to find the robbers stealing his TV and going into his parent’s room. If you want to find out what happens with Omri and the robbers, you have to read the book!!!!! ( )