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Kävik, an Alaskan malamute sled dog, gets sold from Charlie One-eye to Mr. Hunter for $2,000 after winning the North American Sled-dog race and is loaded on a plane in an iron-barred cage. In the middle of the trip, something goes wrong and the plane crashes into the ground, killing pilot Smiley Johnson before he even has time to undo his ...
- Walt Morey, Peter Parnall
- 1968
A made-for-TV movie called The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog based on the book aired under the Sunday Big Event umbrella on NBC in 1979. Plot. Kävik, an Alaskan malamute sled dog, gets sold from Charlie One-eye to Mr. Hunter for $2,000 after winning the North American Sled-dog race and is loaded on a plane in an iron-barred cage. In the middle ...
Mar 28, 2013 · A wolf-dog instinctively travels 2000 miles from Washington to Alaska to return to the boy who once saved his life. Swiftly paced, this is the dramatic story of Kavik, a one-quarter-wolf sled dog raised to be a tough, smart, mean champion. After being rescued by a boy following a plane crash, Kavik experiences love and gentleness for the first ...
Apr 1, 1997 · Along the way Kavik is taken to the pound, adopted by a sailing couple named John and Martha Kent, and allowed again to go. He is attacked by wolves, finds a wolf mate, and himself is hunted as a wolf. What will happen to the dog? Will he make it back to Andy? Lassie Come-Home meets The Call of the Wild.
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- Walt Morey, Peter Parnall
- Walt Morey
Oct 6, 2021 · Honestly, this felt a bit like a Jack London story but for younger readers and without all the racism if you ask me. It's less bleak and dark, obviously, but it did have quite a few similarities (taking place in the cold North American north, sled dog wolfdog protagonist, a strong bond with a human owner, running wild with wolves for a while).
Overview. The story of a champion Eskimo sled dog named Kavik who survives a plane crash in the wilds of Alaska and is found and cared for by a young boy named Andy Evans. But the dog's owner finds Kavik and takes him back to his home in Colorado where the dog escapes and embarks on a 2,000-mile odyssey in search of Andy.
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by Walt Morey ‧RELEASE DATE: Aug. 26, 1968. The knockabout, turnabout saga of a wolf dog who loses and regains his courage, heeds and renounces the call of the wild. Raised as a championship lead sled dog, Kavik at two is aloof, obedient and fierce and a prize for Alaskan-artifact collector George Hunter, who buys him to display at his ...
