Three Claws: The Story of a Grizzly Bear - His Life and Times in the Remote Forests of the Rocky Mountains

His name is Three Claws and he is the ruler of all he surveys. He got his odd name because he lost two claws on his right front paw in a honey-hunting expedition when he was just two years old.

(PRWEB) June 3, 2009

There are other bears in the mountain home of Three Claws, but all of them - black bear and brown bear alike - stay out of his way. Three Claws gets the ripest berries, the greenest, most tender grasses and the prime fishing spots for the delicious, migrating Pacific salmon. Three Claws lives a solitary life, but it is a good life - and it suits him just fine.

And then, one day, intruders enter the grizzly's mountain domain. A large, round, shiny intruder falls from the sky. It's a fallen satellite - and soon comes Three Claws' first contact with the human species. A helicopter (Three Claws thinks it's a giant eagle) follows the satellite to the ground - and then the humans arrive to re-claim their lost satellite treasure.

What happens next - and what happens in the following years - lies at the heart of Stanley J. Revich's latest fictional novel for young adults. The novel is Three Claws and what it is, at its core, is the compelling life story of its titular character.

Revich follows Three Claws throughout his adventurous life and manages to impart a heart-warming human quality to the giant bear, particularly so in the family relationship that evolves with Patuka, a female bear, and their offspring cub White Patch. It is a tribute to Revich's skills as a writer that readers will come to care greatly for Three Claws and his family.

Revich, a retired family doctor, is a gifted wordsmith, with an eye for detail and character development. He writes with warmth and insight and, in Three Claws, builds a storyline that is at once both intriguing and crystal-clear in its narrative.

Three Claws is the seventh novel - perhaps the best thus far, in Revich's young-adult series. He has also published a collection of short stories for children entitled Bobcat Baillie.

As the author himself writes: "Imagination is the key to wonder and wonder is the key to invention; hopefully, this tale will stimulate its readers to look at the past with different eyes.''

Three Claws
by S.J. Revich
ISBN: 9780978139025
$14.95

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