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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-10 13:54:39.
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He was a good ol' dog.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-05-04 18:52:54.
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Cried and cried...I must have been 13.
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Lily posted a review at 2009-03-19 16:51:50.
(Language: English)
Best book I have EVER read! READ IT!
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-05 14:07:18.
(Language: English)
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson This is a great “boy” story, it’s also wonderful for families to share as a read-aloud. It’s set during the early frontier days in the Texas wilderness during the 1860's. The books speaks best for itself - Excerpt: “We called him Old Yeller. The name had a sort of double meaning. One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow, a color that we called “yeller” in those days. The other meant that when he opened his head, the sound he let out came closer to being a yell than a bark. I remember like yesterday how he strayed in out of nowhere to our log cabin in Birdsong Creek. He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. That’s how much I’d come to think of the big yeller dog. He came in the late 1860’s, the best I remember. Anyhow, it was the year that Papa and a bunch of Salt Licks settlers formed a “pool herd” of their little separate bunches of steers and trailed them to the new cattle market at Abilene, Kansas. This was to get “cash money,” a thing that all Texans were short of in those years right after the Civil War. We lived in a new country and a good one. As Papa pointed out the day the men talked over making the drive, we had plenty of grass, wood, and water. We had wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts. ‘In fact,’ Papa wound up, ‘all we lack having a tight tail-holt on the world is a little cash money. And we can get that at Abilene.’”
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Randall posted a review at 2009-02-21 22:47:13.
(Language: English)
Beautifully written, seems to contain the authors original voice. Very heartfelt emotions.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-01-27 18:30:06.
(Language: English)
I think most folks know that this is a sad story but there is a lot of courage and heart-warming good that comes from this tale. It's about a boy coming of age and taking on new responsibilities as he is the man of the house with his pa gone for a time.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-01-27 12:23:49.
(Language: English)
i was such a crybaby through it when I was 6 years old
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Lisa (Mimi) posted a review at 2008-12-27 14:50:03.
(Language: English)
A classic from when I was young. Love it!
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A reader posted a review at 2008-11-05 06:35:37.
(Language: English)
When my son brought this book home I really thought that I would hate it becaue it was about a dog! (I'm not a dog lover, so why would I want to read about one!) But I do have to admit that it was a book that had me on the edge of my seat. I just couldn't put it down. I found it a bit hard to read beacuse of the different way the author wrote but over all I liked the book!
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A reader posted a review at 2008-10-09 07:41:43.
(Language: English)
A good, short novel about the undying realtionship of a boy and his dog. Heartwarming and great for reading in a Autmn afternoon. I liked this book a LOT, but i do feel like it was just a tad bit too short..and the ending was a little bit abrupt...but it was a wonderful quick read...and will DEFINATELY make you cry!
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