Children's books with positive knife usage?

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With a little one on the way, I was wondering if any of you were aware of any children's books that feature knives being used for whittling/carving/camping/work etc? It doesn't have to be a big focus, but just something with mention of it.

Thanks a bunch! :)
 
I think you may have to peruse an older book store that sells vintage books. One of my favorite books as a kid was, "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Lou Rawls. I would bet dollars to donuts that there is a knife in the story somewhere. The hero is a boy raccoon skinner with his coon dogs. It almost reads like one of Jack Knife's stories (BF member). Contemporary books will most not likely have a story line with children using knives. As a grown man, I still frickin cry when I read that story.:o
 
In C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian Peter and Edmund use their pocketknives a couple of times. They cut away some vines hiding a door and I think Peter actually breaks his trying to pry the door open.
 
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
One or both of them used a Barlow I believe.
 
Little Red Riding Hood:
The Woodsman chops off the wolf's head at the end!
(How's that for learning at an early age that sharp things can be your friend!)
 
Not quite a book, but I always remember the boy from "The Rescuers Down Under" using a SAK a lot of the time.
It always made me want one of those.
 
Burroughs' "Tarzan" books...where would Tarzan have been without his solingen hunting knife??
 
The Little House series of books is worthwhile for more than just knife usage. It is marketed as a series of books for girls because it was written about a girl's life. But it gives a great eye-witness view of what life was like at that time. I ended up reading it to both my son and my daughter. And I enjoyed it a lot myself.

http://www.littlehousebooks.com/books/
 
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