Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
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Book Reviews of Where the Red Fern Grows
Book Review: Where the Red Fern Grows
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie, Where the Red Fern Grows and the book were great. There were many differences between the movie and the book. The book went into more details than the movie. The movie and the book express how desperately Billy wanted the coonhounds. With his effort, Billy was able to get what he really wanted. With Old Dan and Little Ann, Billy was able to enter the championship.
The movie left out some things that they mention in the book such as the beauty contest, Cat Sammie, raccoon traps, and more. When Pritchard's son, Rubin die while having a bet with Billy to catch the ghost coon, Billy's family and Pritchard's family were both very sad. In the movie, it doesn't talk about the Pritchard's family that much, but in the book, it talks about how mean the Pritchards' were.
Billy's dogs die after the fight with the mountain lion. After Old Dan die, Little Ann didn't eat anything. Little Ann went to where Billy had buried Old Dan, and Billy found her lying there and found out that Little Ann was dead, too. I think that the story of Where the Red Fern Grows is a love story. Billy loved his two dogs so much. With the hardship, Billy earned money, wanting dogs so badly. Billy would do anything for his two dogs. After his dogs died, part of him just faded, but after the red fern grew on the place where he buried his dogs, Billy was very happy. Billy never forgot the strong love and relationship between him and his dogs. I think both book and the movie was great. I enjoyed watching and reading Where the Red Fern Grows. I think anyone who watches or reads Where the Red Fern Grows, will enjoy it!
Book Review: Classic story to read and reread
Summary: 5 Stars
Where the Red Fern Grows is a fabulous story. Written for children, but easily enjoyed by adults as well. The story tells of a young boy who wants nothing more then to have a couple of coon hunting dogs to train and take out hunting. When he realizes there is no way for his parents to afford such a luxury, he sets out to raise the money himself. Over two long years he works hard doing odd jobs like picking and selling berries to earn change from people passing through the area. Once he earns enough money needed, he has to then send off the payment and wait for notice that they have arrived in town at the post office. As if waiting wasn't hard enough, then he had to make the trek to town, barefoot, by himself to go and pick up the dogs without letting his parents know what he was doing.
The two dogs, Little Ann and Old Dan, are not only great companions for the young boy but also true best friends to each other. The three of them work hard together to train to become the best hunters they can be. This story is set back at a time when children were allowed to go off hunting by themselves at night. A time when earning 10-15 cents was a wonderful amount of money. The story really brings you back to a simpler time. A time when even an ordinary event, like getting a new dog, was an amazing feat. You will find yourself rooting for the pups and their owner along the way.
Sit down with your child and a box of kleenex and enjoy the adventure.
By Kerri J. Busteed
Author of Will's First Hunt [...]
Book Review: Where the Red Fern Grows
Summary: 4 Stars
Where the Red Fern grows is an exciting story of a boy named Billy who lives in the Ozark Mountains in Oklahoma with his mom and dad and his younger sisters. Billy has always wanted Dogs so one day he finds an ad where there are pups for sale. Billy really wants some of his own pups but doesn't have much money. The pups are fifty dollars which is a lot of money to come up with. Billy works every day for a long time trying to earn enough money to get the pups. Once Billy earns enough money he gives the money to his grandfather who orders them for him. Billy has to travel all the way to Tahlequah where the pups are to be picked up the pups he has to travel by him self to pick the up. He finally gets the two dogs and decides to name them Old Dan and Little Ann. As the two dogs grow up Billy trains them to be raccoon hunter. The two dogs grow up to be fierce hunters and Billy is able to sell the coonskin for money and gives it to his father. Billy enters his dogs in a Hunting contest and the two dogs show they are good enough to win the contest and the prize is four-hundred dollars. One night when Billy is raccoon hunting the dogs tree a mountain lion. They fight and eventually kill the mountain loin but Dan is very badly injured and he dies. After awhile Ann dies of sadness and Billy is very sad. The dogs have earned enough money for Billy and his family that they are able to move to town. It takes Billy awhile to get over the fact that his dogs are gone until one day he goes to the graves and sees a Red Fern planted by an angel.Book Review: Where The Red Fern Grows
Summary: 5 Stars
WHERE THE RED FERN
GROWS
This amazing book is about a 12 year old boy named Billy. Billy lives up in the mountains where every one goes coon hunting. People often stop at his house and ask his family if they could go hunting on their land and of course they always say yes. Billy has 2 sisters, a mother and a father and they all live together. Billy and his sisters don't go to school ,their mother home schools them. But Billy isn't as happy as he would be if he had a pair of hunting dogs. Billy's family unfortunately doesn't have enough money for a pair of hunting dogs. But one day Billy was up by the river when he found a magazine with an article saying that you could get two dogs for the price of $50.00. So he figured that if he worked for the people who came hunting on his land he would get enough money to buy his dogs. Billy ended up working for two long hard years but finally had enough money to buy those dogs. One day he asked his father if he could go down to his grandfather's store, he said yes. Billy ran down to the store as fast as he could. Once he got down there he handed his grandfather the money and the slip and asked him to mail it in for him, his grandfather couldn't refuse. A few days later a letter came in saying that Billy had to go down the river a ways and the dogs himself. Well you'll have to read the book to find out what happens next. I liked this book because it's sad and adventurous but not too sad.
Book Review: Another Great Book
Summary: 4 Stars
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls tells the story of a young boy named Billy growing up in the rural Ozark Mountains during the depression. Billy's family is poor but proud of the simple life they live. Billy's dream is to own a pair of coon hounds. His family does not have the money to buy Billy any hunting dogs. So Billy sets out to work and save enough money to buy the dogs himself. His Grandfather encourages him and even agrees to keep Billy's plan a secret from his parents. He works at all sorts of odd jobs and saves every penny he can get his hands on in an old tin can. By the end of the summer he has enough money to buy a pair of pups. He sees an advertisement in a magazine for quality coon hound pups and his grandfather helps him to order them. Billy has to walk to town when his dogs arrive. On the way home they have an encounter with a cougar. Billy names his pups Old Dan and Little Ann. He works hard to train them to hunt. Billy enters a hunting competition and after enduring a number of set backs he wins the gold cup. Through all of his adventures with Old Dan and Little Ann Billy learns many valuable lessons about life. The author, Wilson Rawls, brings to life the time and place of his story in Where the Red Fern Grows. I enjoy hunting and working with dogs in the field, so I was able to relate to Billy's love of his dogs and the land. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to any reader.