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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
I remember this made me cry but it was really really good back when I read it in fourth or fifth grade. Will probably re-read again soon
Just stop. If you ever need a good cry.... why am I reading all the dog books lately?!?! I can’t wait to read this one with Henry when he gets a few years older. Such a sweet coming of age story.
I love this book. I have read it like 11 times and haven't gotten tired of it. I guess I just really love the story of the relationship between some country boy and two dogs. LOVE IT!
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I didn’t think that I’d care much for this book, but I cried like a baby at the end.
I knew it was sad but nobody told me it was THAT sad...
I'm bawling right now. Any book that makes me cry wins. This one won big time.
I'm bawling right now. Any book that makes me cry wins. This one won big time.
I read this in second grade and couldn't remember anything about the plot. All I remembered was that the ending was sad and I cried. Well, some things never change! I read this aloud to my youngest and we both sobbed through the last chapter.
The book itself feels a little dated, but that's to be expected. I still feel glad that I read this to her. It's the sort of book that's almost like a rite of passage- right up there with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or The Chronicles of Narnia.
The book itself feels a little dated, but that's to be expected. I still feel glad that I read this to her. It's the sort of book that's almost like a rite of passage- right up there with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or The Chronicles of Narnia.
Read this eons ago and then re-read it a couple of years back. Great book!
READ HARDER 2018: A children’s classic published before 1980
Hope you like to read stories about boys and dogs just murdering lots and lots of raccoons. Like, so many raccoons. Sometimes maiming them first. Before the killing. Look, I have a huge chip on my shoulder about raccoons. They’re dicks and they killed my childhood pets. I’m still a little creeped out when a child quite literally rubs his hands with glee at the thought of terrorizing them and then clubbing them to death.
If you can get past the romanticized hunting and the repetition of how Billy is sure there was never a _____ in all the world more _____ than he and the terrible theology of “everything that happens is part of God’s plan,” the prose is beautiful and good goddamn did I just sob and sob at the end. Those dogs were good dogs. I like this book as a potential access point to conversations about economic disparity in America, too.
But geez. Everyone warned me about the sad dog stuff and didn’t mention the raccoon genocide. I would’ve hated this book as a child; I’m glad I didn’t read it then. At least now I can admire aspects of it!
Hope you like to read stories about boys and dogs just murdering lots and lots of raccoons. Like, so many raccoons. Sometimes maiming them first. Before the killing. Look, I have a huge chip on my shoulder about raccoons. They’re dicks and they killed my childhood pets. I’m still a little creeped out when a child quite literally rubs his hands with glee at the thought of terrorizing them and then clubbing them to death.
If you can get past the romanticized hunting and the repetition of how Billy is sure there was never a _____ in all the world more _____ than he and the terrible theology of “everything that happens is part of God’s plan,” the prose is beautiful and good goddamn did I just sob and sob at the end. Those dogs were good dogs. I like this book as a potential access point to conversations about economic disparity in America, too.
But geez. Everyone warned me about the sad dog stuff and didn’t mention the raccoon genocide. I would’ve hated this book as a child; I’m glad I didn’t read it then. At least now I can admire aspects of it!