![]() Gunn adeptly uses the guilelessness of childhood to highlight some real issues. He’s highly intelligent and imaginative, which leads to frustration. Phin is a symbol of our times – a child so overwhelmed by information that his childhood is being stolen from him. He’s a preteen insomniac watching the world around him disintegrate and feeling helpless to stop it.īut there’s much more to Amphibian that tubthumping for the environment. Rather than running around outside with friends, exploring the natural world and the creatures he so dearly cherishes, Phin is locked in a state of anxiety. Phin Walsh, the nine-year-old narrator of Carla Gunn’s debut novel, is the kind of kid who could only be described as “sensitive.” Hours spent watching documentaries on the Green Channel have left him better informed than most adults about pollution, the plight of animals being robbed of their habitats, and the burden humans have placed on our rapidly decaying Earth. ![]()
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