At a garage sale, I picked up a circa 1950s anthology for kids. Is "anthology" the right word? Its one book with excerpts of several novels. One of those excerpts that we enjoyed was Kon-Tiki, about an expedition on a raft across the Pacific. It told of fish that glowed around the raft at night, others that jumped right out of the sea onto the raft (breakfast!) and encounters with dolphins and whales.
Later at a thrift shop I found the entire book!
That was over a year ago.
Big sister pulled it off the shelf and only a few pages in, I'm ready to start my own lapbook! (She won't have it. this is BEDTIME reading!) Thor Heyerdahl was intrigued by the similarity between far-removed people groups all categorized as "Polynesian". He built a raft to recreate the journey made by their common ancestor. This seems an ideal living book: it has enthusiasm, determination, geography, biology, history. And we're only on page 25.
There's also a documentary DVD! (Haven't seen it yet)
