The Book I Wouldn't Read | Issue 14

on Farley Mowat's The Boat Who Wouldn't Float

When I was in grade six, I had to read a book that almost killed my love of reading forever.

It was The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float, a comedic book of nonfiction by Farley Mowat about his adventures in Newfoundland with a boat that sank more times than it sailed.

The assignment required that we read one of the four novels that we would borrow from the school…