![]() ![]() ![]() She'd made a practice of reading to her children. The family moved to an area with schools, he attendedįor a few years until the Great Depression struck andĭuring the years when his mother taught school at home, Her son and daughters at home as best she could. There were no schools available, so Wilson's mother taught Ozark mountains in the early part of this century, andĪs much as anything it is about (Woodrow)Ī portrait of his boyhood in dirt-poor Scraper, Oklahoma. It's about a boy and his overwhelmingĭream to own a dog, it's about family life in the rural And like those other books, Red Fern isĪbout far more than a dog. The Red Fern Grows is one of the great Americanĭog stories. Of embarrassment by its authorafter he'd spent That was completely burned before publication because Rawls, is the only children's book I know Robert McCloskey spentĪ full year writing the 1,142 words in Make Stories are published as soon as they are written and ![]() There with each of the collected stories. Listen to This, one of more than 40 profiles contained Is excerpted from Jim Trelease's anthology Hey! ![]()
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