A River Dream

This book shares the story of a young boy who is unable to go finshing with his uncle because he is too sick to leave his room. As he opens up a present sent to him from his uncle, his room turns into a fantasy dream and he sees his uncle catching fish off of his boat. The lesson taught in the story is that it is important to return these fish back to their natural habitat so that they can live as well, which the uncle does in the book. This is a great way to talk about nature and conservation of the environment within the classroom. It also can be used to incoporate imagination into the classroom through artwork and written accompaniments. The illustrations are also beautiful and really stand out among the words.

A sick child recieves a box of fishing lures from his uncle. He's only been fishing once and didn't catch anything. His neighborhood turn into a river and he meets up with his uncle and goes fishing. He catches a fish and wants to kill it to show his parents but decides to let it go when his uncle tells him he has to kill it himself. He goes back to his room and goes to sleep.
The theme of this book is about respecting life and not hurting others for selfish reasons. I think that the setting in a dream river make A River Dream less preachy than if it were set on an actually fishing trip.

Beautiful water colors lend tranquillity to this fantasy of a young boy's fly-fishing trip. When Mark hooks a beautiful fish, he realizes he must kill it. So instead, he decides to release it carefully back into the stream.

Mark is not feeling well, and his uncle takes him out on a fishing adventure to make him feel better. What I really liked this story was the lesson Mark learned from his uncle. My favorite line of the book goes, "I like to leave the river the way I found it. It's like cutting trees. You keep cutting trees and soon you're going to have bald mountains". Our youth really needs to learn to conserve the environment because we only have one planet. I would read this book for Earth Day, or combine it with a topic on fishes.

This is the story of a sick boy who gets fishing lures in the mail from his uncle. The boy looks outside and the road has turned into a river . He goes out and finds a boat, climbs inside then rides down until he meets his uncle. They fish and let the fish go because they like to leave the lake the way they found and hope to catch a mermaid some day. The whole book is a dream

Mark is a young man who was in bed sick with a fever. He got a package from his uncle who was a fisherman. It had flies in it that flew out the window and suddenly a river appeared outside his house. He was dreaming, but went out and caught the biggest trout and wanted to keep it. In the end, he decided to leave the river as he found it and not kill the fish. He went back to his house and got in bed. When his parents walked in he was pretending to be fast asleep. This is a good read for maybe 2nd or 3rd graders.

Mark was laying in bed, sick with a fever. His uncle heard he was sick so he sent him a present, which was a fly box. When Mark opened the gift it made him think of the time he went fishing with he Uncle Scott and lost his catch. When mark opens the box the flies all fly out of the window, when Mark looks out of the window he realizes he isn't looking at the city anymore, but he is looking at a river with a forest around it. He climbs out of his window to go explore and finds a boat, so he gets in it. Turns out the boat is his uncles and him and his uncle fish. In the end you realize that this is just a dream of a sick child. This is a good book to teach children that they should dream and how significant dreams are.