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Gr 4-6 David the lemming, an individual from the moment he is born, is banished from the lemming colony because of his curiosity and unusual behavior. Becoming a friend of hawks and wolves, he survives quite well on his own. When his friend Wolf tells him the legend of the Far Walker, who, when banished from his pack, journeys to a high mountain and there receives a power to save his people from danger, David then sets off on a similar quest, to find out why he is so different. Writing fiction about lemmings is a tricky business. Readers knowing the one most famous fact about their behavior will guess both theme and plot; those unaware of it may completely miss the point. Leonard assumes that his readers know that these creatures sometimes go on mad migrations ending in death, and so does not explain that the suicidal rush of lemmings over the cliff at the end of the story is not an abnormal event. The language is uneven, ranging from highly colloquial dialogue and description of action to stilted, archaic-sounding remarks exchanged by the characters in moments of tension. Slight, sketchy drawings illustrate David's adventures. Alan Arkin's The Lemming Condition (Harper, 1976) is a more successful fable with a lemminghero. Ruth S. Vose, San Francisco Public Library
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