Little Tricker the Squirrel meets Big Double the Bear

During story time with Mr. Rather, he prompted us to analize the story and to notice if the author did a good job of making the story read as though it was an oral story. In my opinion, the story, with a few exceptions, did in fact read as though we were sitting at a camp fire and Mr. Rather was fifty some-odd years old teaching all the little children about being smarter than one's opponent. It was rather difficult in a few areas to imagine this however, mostly because a few tongue-tying phrases. Dispite Mr. Rather's excellent reading voice, the original reader, probably with more experience, would have read the story with a more flowing nature. The tongue-tying phrases would have come naturally as though the story were merely told instead of read.
The author did a fabulous job in unifying or separating the characters. The wording surrounding the smaller creatures that Big Double consumed was described in a very unique and systematic way up until the point of Big Double's meeting with Tricker the squirrel. When the author describes the movements of the first few forest animals, he follows and explodes the description of Big Double's movements. (E.i. sprang up like a fish, to shot up like a shark) The patterned continued until Big Double's contact with Tricker. This break in the systematic nature of the story automatically sends a message to the listeners that Tricker is the straw that breaks the camel's (or in this case Big Double the Bear's) back.
All in all this story is well written and well read for any age of reader/listeners. I greatly enjoyed the author's ability to create a story that was not only meant to be read but also to be heard.