Rereading: THE FOSSIL SNAKE by L. M. Boston

Illustrated by Peter Boston

This is a short book of prose, 54 pages, with fine illustrations by Boston’s son. Rob’s father has a load of stones delivered to their home with which to build a wall, but one cracks open revealing a perfectly preserved fossil of a snake. Rob is allowed to keep it, even though a local museum would like to have it, and Rob puts the fossil under the radiator in his room. The warmth somehow brings the snake back to life, and it becomes almost a friend to Rob, first feeding on mice in the walls, then on other things outside as it grows. Rob is fearful it will be taken away if discovered, but until then he and the snake have some interesting adventures.

Recommended.

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