Lassie Come-Home

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Summary: A good read
Review: An excellent book for both dog and collie lovers. Suitable for any age. A heroic female dog.

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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: I purchased this book believing that I was getting a new edition of the classic Eric Knight children's book. This book is a picture-book version of that classic, and the text is considerably abridged. The pictures are absolutely lovely, but they cannot, in my opinion, make up for the loss of the wonderful details, the dialogue, and the glorious description that the original contained. I applaud the editors for wanting to bring back a classic, but they would have done well to consider what made the book a classic in the first place.

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Summary: Daniel from Richview Middle School
Review: If you like dogs then Lassie Come Home is the book for you. It is the story of a dog and its family who sell Lassie to the very rich duke of Rudling. No matter how many times Lassie tries to escape the Duke always catches her and puts her in very small pen. Finaly the Duke gets mad and moves to a very far away estate and Lassie is forced to travel thousands of miles to get home. This is a very good book especially for dog lovers. This book is a classic, I give this book a five star rating and hope that others like it to.

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Summary: A classic returned to print
Review: If, like me, you read this book in childhood and have lamented the recent unavailability of any but abridged editions, rejoice--this is the Dell Yearling paperback many of you may remember, complete and uncut. Adults and children alike will love it (Knight originally published it in a short-story version in "The Saturday Evening Post," which, though a family journal, was aimed at a grown-up audience); even cat people (like me) can take great delight in it.

Everyone knows the story: the beautiful collie Lassie, beloved by the Yorkshire schoolboy Joe Carraclough, is sold by Joe's father to the local Duke because the coal mine in which he has labored has shut down and he needs the money to feed his family. But Lassie is linked to Joe by a love-bond that recognizes no barriers. Three times she escapes and returns to him. Then, taken to the Duke's property far in the northern regions of Scotland, she flees again, and sets out on an epic trek homeward. Some of the people she meets hinder or seek to harm her; others give her care and help so she can get on the way again; one, the unforgettable peddler Rowlie Palmer, she travels with as almost a partner, and repays by saving his life. And in the end her faithfulness brings good fortune upon the Carraclough home, and all is well.

Lyrically written and rich with the flavor of the English and scottish countryside, this book should be read aloud to every child in the land. (Then rent the video with young Roddy McDowell--the adaptation is excellent.)

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Summary: Worthy classic
Review: Still interesting, emotion-provoking and relevant for the 21st century's jaded youth. Recommended.

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Summary: My favorite book ever!
Review: The book tells the amazing story of a Collie female dog, Lassie, whose owners are compelled to sell her because of financial troubles. After she breaks away from her new estate several times, she is taken to Scotland, a hundred miles away. But she doesn't give up. With her directional sense, she breaks away and keep running southward and southward, running into challenges that are virtually impossible for a dog.

There is no other book that I have read so many times. It keeps exciting since the early childhood to nowadays. A must read.