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Old Yeller., Drawings by Carl Burger

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A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story is told as a boy might share his own experience of growing up -- the dialect is no more insistent-possibly less so- than in The Yearling. Travis is thirteen when his father goes off on the long cattle trail to Abilene, leaving him as man of the house. There were the hogs who ran wild and some of the most exciting parts of the story tell of the roping and branding of the young. There were the cattle that had to be gentled for milking. There was a constant battle against skunks and coons in the corn patch and the melons. There was a small brother, violent in protest against Travis as disciplinarian. And -- a fairly shadowy figure- there was his mother, taking her share and more, in the struggle for existence. But most important there was Old Yeller, a big ugly yellow cur, whom Travis hated at the start and grew to love and trust and depend on, up to the tragic and dramatic end. A moving segment of early frontier America
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
158 p.
Isbn
9780060115456
Instance
Label
Old Yeller.
Title
Old Yeller.
Statement of responsibility
Drawings by Carl Burger
Creator
Contributor
Ez-s-wrsJRE
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story is told as a boy might share his own experience of growing up -- the dialect is no more insistent-possibly less so- than in The Yearling. Travis is thirteen when his father goes off on the long cattle trail to Abilene, leaving him as man of the house. There were the hogs who ran wild and some of the most exciting parts of the story tell of the roping and branding of the young. There were the cattle that had to be gentled for milking. There was a constant battle against skunks and coons in the corn patch and the melons. There was a small brother, violent in protest against Travis as disciplinarian. And -- a fairly shadowy figure- there was his mother, taking her share and more, in the struggle for existence. But most important there was Old Yeller, a big ugly yellow cur, whom Travis hated at the start and grew to love and trust and depend on, up to the tragic and dramatic end. A moving segment of early frontier America
Summary
About a Texas pioneer family in the 1860s and the big yellow stray dog that affects their lives
Storyline
Tone
Writing style
Award
  • Nene Award (Hawaii), 1966.
  • William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas), 1959.
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078369
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
813
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
910
Intended audience source
Lexile
LC call number
  • PZ3.G44122
  • PS3513.I79
LC item number
Ol
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910
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
  • 4
  • 6
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
Target audience
adolescent
Label
Old Yeller., Drawings by Carl Burger
Instantiates
Publication
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
158 p.
Isbn
9780060115456
Lccn
56008780
Other physical details
illus.
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780060115456
  • (OCoLC)284789
Label
Old Yeller., Drawings by Carl Burger
Publication
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
158 p.
Isbn
9780060115456
Lccn
56008780
Other physical details
illus.
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780060115456
  • (OCoLC)284789

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