The Yearling
No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators,...
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No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689846236 (0689846231)
Publish date: September 1st 2001
Publisher: Aladdin
Pages no: 513
Edition language: English
This is the first non kids (Dr. Seuss, golden) book I ever read (I was apx 5). I barely remember it and should probably read it again.
This is the first non kids (Dr. Seuss, golden) book I ever read (I was apx 5). I barely remember it and should probably read it again.
This is the first non kids (Dr. Seuss, golden) book I ever read (I was apx 5). I barely remember it and should probably read it again.
From November of 2011:I just spent about six hours with The Yearling and I could happily turn to page one and spend another six hours. Jody is a young boy, a yearling himself, if you will, who lives with his mother and father in the wilds of Florida in the early 1900’s. His mother and father are a l...
I absolutely hated this book. I'm not even sure that "hate" describes how I feel. This is based purely on how I felt reading it and not the writing quality, though that was really rather poor as well.I suppose that most people were supposed to have this reaction:and then natter on about how amazing ...
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