Now You're Logging

Gina Chiola is a graduate English student at York University.

Griffiths has written and illustrated a story about a subject he knows
well—logging. His use of “logging language,” although crude at
times, gives the reader a real sense of authenticity.

Now You’re Logging is the story of Al Richards and Red Harris and
their exciting experiences in a small West Coast truck-logging camp
during the 1930s. As they learn the art of logging, the reader learns
about the logger’s way of life and comes to appreciate and respect all
the hard work and dangers involved with logging.

Griffiths should be commended for a job well done. Now You’re Logging
reflects part of Canada’s past—a past that helped identify the
Pacific Northwest to the rest of the world. However, although the story
is written and illustrated in comic-book style, by no means should it be
categorized as children’s literature. This book of genuine folk art
can be fully appreciated only by adults.