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Where the Red Fern Grows
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Where the Red Fern Grows Hardcover - 1996

by Wilson Rawls


About this book

Where the Red Fern Grows is a children's novel written by American author Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs. 

The author, Wilson Rawls, grew up in Oklahoma and although he always aspired to be a writer, he had little formal education and struggled greatly with spelling and punctuation. Eventually, with the help and encouragement of his wife, he hand wrote the manuscript for Where the Red Fern Grows in three weeks, from the memory of previous manuscripts he had burned because he was ashamed of them. The story was picked up by the Saturday Evening Post where it was published in a series titled “The Hounds of Youth”. Doubleday the published the book the same year, changing the name and attempting to market it to adults, although the author had specifically written it for children. When it was published in 1961, initial sales of the book were slow, although today it has sold over seven millions copies and is required reading in many schools.  
 

t was made into a popular 1974 film starring Stewart Petersen, James Whitmore and Beverly Garland. The film was remade in 2003 and starred Joseph Ashton, Dabney Coleman, Ned Beatty and Dave Matthews. This book is a popular choice for early middle school reading classes, with a reading level appropriate to grades 4 and up. -

From the publisher

Wilson Rawls grew up on a small farm in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma. There were no schools where he lived so his mother taught Rawls and his sisters how to read and write. He says that reading the book The Call of the Wild changed his life and gave him the notion that he would like to grow up to write a book like it. He shared his dream with his father, and his father gave him the encouraging advice, "Son, a man can do anything he sets out to do, if he doesn't give up." Rawls never forgot his father's words, and went on to create two novels about his boyhood that have become modern classics.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

First line

WHEN I LEFT MY OFFICE that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me.

First Edition Identification

-First editions, published in 1961 by Doubleday, have a $3.95 price present on the front flap with the author's description on back flap. Jacket design by Reisie Lonette. 

Details

  • Title Where the Red Fern Grows
  • Author Wilson Rawls
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Delacorte Press, New York, New York
  • Date May 3, 1996
  • ISBN 9780385323307 / 0385323301
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.84 x 0.77 in (21.49 x 14.83 x 1.96 cm)
  • Ages 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Reading level 700
  • Library of Congress subjects Dogs, Human-animal relationships
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 61009201
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Wilson Rawls grew up on a small farm in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma. There were no schools where he lived so his mother taught Rawls and his sisters how to read and write. He says that reading the book The Call of the Wild changed his life and gave him the notion that he would like to grow up to write a book like it. He shared his dream with his father, and his father gave him the encouraging advice, "Son, a man can do anything he sets out to do, if he doesn't give up." Rawls never forgot his father's words, and went on to create two novels about his boyhood that have become modern classics.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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