Library Binding, Large Print (March 8th, 2017): $22.99.Paperback, Large Print (April 1st, 2018): $17.99 Where the Red Fern Grows DecemBy Jessica Cox PLATINUM, Dexter, Michigan More by this author He pinched my dogs ear so I had to punch him.

Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century.

“We tear up just thinking about it.” - Time on the film adaptation Product Details Wilson Rawls is the author of the timeless classic Where the Red Fern Grows and the acclaimed novel Summer of the Monkeys. Based on the author's own boyhood, this boy-and-his-dog story is exciting, uplifting, and heartbreaking.

I can’t even go on without getting a little misty.” - The Huffington Post Where the Red fern Grows is also a romantic period piece that portrays a rural America where a boy could ramble through the countryside with his dogs all night long, in complete freedom. “It’s a story about a young boy and his two hunting dogs and. “Written with so much feeling and sentiment that adults as well as children are drawn with a passion.” - Arizona Daily Star “An exciting tale of love and adventure you’ll never forget.” - School Library Journal “A book of unadorned naturalness.” - Kirkus Reviews careful, precise observation, all of it rightly phrased.Very touching.” - The New York Times Book Review Any child who doesn’t get to read this beloved and powerfully emotional book has missed out on an important piece of childhood for the last 40-plus years.” - Common Sense Media “ One of the great classics of children’s literature.

A Top 100 Children’s Novel, School Library Journal This entry was posted in Realistic Fiction by kidsbookblog. Billy’s father’s prediction is that the blizzard will last untill morning. Billy remembers and talks about his past life, his determination in earning an amount of money to buy two puppies, his most difficult adventures with his dogs in earning a living and surviving natural hardships. Billy lost his dogs and his grandfather tripped and hurt his ankle. The book Where the red fern grows by Wilson Rawles, portrays Billys life in the Ozark Mountains. When it was Billy’s night to hunt a blizzard roared over the sky. When his dogs were one of the city’s greatest hunters, Billy’s grandfather signed him up for a hunting competition. Every week or so, he went to his grandfather’s shop to sell the coon skins. They hunted further away from home night after night. When they went on their first hunt they caught a coon. When he went to pick up his dogs at the depot after he ordered them, he named the girl Little Ann and the boy Big Dan. Billy picked berries, sold worms, and dozens of other chores for an entire two years to only earn fifty dollars. When Billy was young he really wanted coon hounds. During Billy’s older years he had a flash back of his childhood memories and piece by piece the story unfolded.

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