Jungle Doctor And the Whirlwind (Flamingo Fiction 9-13s) Paperback – May 20, 2015

This is a children's book, therefore answering the questions was a bit tricky. My 11 yo daughter found the book very enjoyable once she got a ways into it. She complained at first but now she is asking for more Jungle Doctor books!

"Required" buy for schoolwire reading. Didn't make it past the first few chapters before asking the teacher if first graders were really supposed to understand this. The book starts with a dictionary at the beginning -words I would never remember let alone a first grader. The writing is choppy and, if you don't remember the definition of the alphabet soup word you just read, you have to pause to look it back up. This book didn't flow, and, no, we never finished it. Would not recommend for first grader.

When 'enduring' the usual childhood challenges and illnesses, this book, and the rest in the series, stocked in our church's library, were great reading and helped keep time from 'dragging'. Now we're getting them for our grandchildren!

great book i loved it

Habari? (What news?)Nzuri. (Good.)I heard that Swahili greeting & response numerous times in the Jungle Doctor & the Whirlwind from christianaudio.com. At first I thought, "That's not so different than a typical quick, polite, superficial greeting here." But there is a difference. The American greeting goes "How are you?" . . . "Fine." And that's it. But the Swahili greeting often doesn't end with Nzuri.It might go something like this: "What's the news?" . . . "Good. . . . But in our village many people are dying."That's one of the reasons I appreciate books about other cultures: I learn about my own.I've visited hospitals in Africa and I've written about medical missionary Helen Roseveare, so I could imagine pretty easily the rugged, challenging setting of Dr. Paul White`s stories from Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in the late 1930s when he was there.Officially this book is for ages 10 and up. As I listened I realized, Yes it's good for preteens and early teens, but it's definitely not too young for me. I kept thinking of different sorts of people who'd get drawn into Jungle Doctor and the Whirlwind, of the Jungle Doctor Series (also available in paperback).If you're a medical worker, imagine preparing for and fighting a deadly dysentery epidemic in a hospital where some nurses are on strike, where there are few beds, no electricity, no rubber gloves, and where water is hauled from an hour away. Just imagine that that "hospital, limited as it was, was the only spot where some quarter of a million people could hope for medicine that worked and facilities that put them back on their feet."If you're the mechanical type, picture the hospital's truck/ambulance, "the grandmother of machines," that was dubbed Sukuma (push) because that was the only way to get her started. "She is old. She limps like I do." When a mechanic happens onto the scene, he diagnoses "the sickness of the spark plugs and points."If you love stories of answered prayer and if you find truth is refreshed for you when you hear it in new words from unfamiliar contexts, you'll find that sort of stories throughout the book:"We prayed to God for the strength to do what seemed impossible. . . . 'How badly we need at least 2 more trained people. . . . I'm afraid the legs of my faith are not strong. But it's not me that matters. It's God. . . .'"Mboga . . . picked up a stick with a knob on the end--a powerful weapon. . . . 'Once I hit a hyena with one of these. He was after my goat. Yo-o-o, I thumped him. He howled and ran. . . . His rod and his staff they comfort. They protect. It's his arm that does it. . . . The little goat could do nothing by himself.' . . ."'Three people come toward the hospital. . . . Is it not Bibi [Australian nurse] and with her Sala, who is a trained nurse? And that is her husband Yana, the one who sings.' . . ."Mboga said, 'Rod and staff.'"If music speaks to you, you won't be surprised at this insight:"I suddenly realized how we could help even the sickest of our patients to understand about God. Music finds its way into the minds even of those barely conscious and plants itself in the memory. Yana seemed to sense what I was thinking. Softly he started to sing, 'So I'll not stop my song, the words of which carry life along. On the cross he died that I might be forgiven.'. . . That's the medicine."If you're concerned about conservation of resources and if you're the make-do-with-what-you-have sort, here's just one taste from the book:"Water is our great need, and we have little of it. . . . The handwashing basin is now on the veranda with 2 kerosene tins--one full, one empty. There is also a jam tin beside the full one. . . . Those that wash fill this small tin, pour it into the basin, wash their hands, and then empty the water they have used into the empty kerosene tin. Not a drop is wasted. This water can be used to wash floors, and if we are very short, to wash people."I'm sorry if I've misspelled names. That's one small disadvantage of reading with my ears instead of my eyes-especially when each name gets pronounced in 3 different accents through the story-American, Australian, Tanzanian.Paul Michael narrates the story in American English, speaks for Paul White in Australian English and uses an African accent for many others. To my American ear Michael's characterizations gave personality to the actors in the drama. He has wide experience narrating audiobooks and it shows.I hope others won't be as superficial as I have been all these years, letting the cover art put me off reading or listening to a good story. I guess I forgot what they say about judging a book by its cover.My thanks to christianaudio.com for providing the review download. They also carry audio editions of many other books by Paul White.

Jungle Doctor and the Whirlwind written by Paul White, narrated by Paul Michael on audiobook, and published by christianaudio - yep, that's the book.So, what did I think of it?Well, it's more like what did I not think of it? No, I don't mean that they way it sounds. Here me out.When I first requested to review this book, I honestly knew very little about it other than the title and what the cover art looked like. I actually thought it was more of a children's book than it turned out to be, which is not a bad thing.As I began listening to this audiobook during my commutes, I was sucked in almost immediately. Paul Michael does an amazing job narrating this book! He does the various characters' voices so convincingly that I would have thought he was a mix of Australian and Tanzanian, and was both a young and old man...and even a woman - young and old. Sound crazy? Not at all. He is an excellent audiobook narrator.Beyond the superb audio theatrics, I was also pleasantly drawn in by the captivating storytelling of Paul White (whom I knew nothing about until the intro to this book). He doesn't just excellently and creatively weave an interesting story; he also presents and unfolds some deep, important Biblical truths in ways that make God's Word and ways tangible to the reader/listener.White uses the comparison of a storm - a whirlwind - to our lives in that if you "sow the wind" you will "reap the whirlwind." (Hosea 8:7) He also uses analogies from nature to relate how sin affects a person from the inside out, by describing how a destructive insect can get inside of an ear of corn and eat away at it without the outside of the ear having any evidence of what the inside has become.I can in no way recount the stories and analogies in the way Paul White does, but let me just say that he is a master weaver of a captivating story with a meaning and a purpose.This story does specifically center around a man who is a drug dealer and is pushing and using marijuana, so that is why I said at the beginning that I do not consider it a children's book. I do, however, highly suggest it as a book for adults of all ages including young adults and even teenagers. You may, however, want to screen it first for yourself before letting a pre-teen or maybe even a teen read/listen to it. I may be erring on the side of caution, but I know some people may not prefer for their child of those ages to be exposed to descriptions of people being high and such quite yet. Realistically, most of them probably are exposed to those discussions by those ages, but again, I leave that to your discretion. And besides, you will thoroughly enjoy and be challenged by reading/listening to this book yourself first anyway.Disclaimer: I received this audiobook for free from christianaudio.com. No other compensation was received. The fact that I received a complimentary product does not guarantee a favorable review.

Perfect present for a relative who has searched everywhere for them. Packaged great and fast delivery definitely worth the price and no hassles buying them they were loved

Very pleased to receive this quickly and timely in the post. Thank you arranging the delivery. This book will delight my nephews and inspire them and hopefully they will be hooked to read the adventure series! New copy as promised. God bless!