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Summary: "My dad told me so", and he inspired me with this story!
Review: The Yearling continues to inspire our family. For three generations, fathers in our family have read this story beside the warmth of the family hearth, yet amid the vivid swirling of life experienced thereby. A boy long ago really isn't any different from me. He learns about life and reality amid idyllic beauty of character development, landscape and feelings. My children, as I at my fathers knee, longed for the special time that "dad" would share this family treasure, together. My children already are arguing about who gets to inherit the copy my dad gave me when I was twelve.
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Summary: Not Enough Plot
Review: When I started reading this book I had high hopes for it but I couldn't seem to get into it. There was a lot of description and not much plot. If you have a lot of free time on your hands read this book, if not don't bother.
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Summary: Overall it was ok :)
Review: This book became monotonous to an extent that all the characters such as Jody and Pa Baxter were doing is hoeing the corn and hunting. All it did was a chain that was event:description, event:description, etc. We are talking long discriptions too, it takes the author like a chapter to describe how to plow a field. Maybe I am exaggerating a little but that is how it seemed at times. It was also a slow start, but it did progress as the story continued. Overall it was an ok read and contained wonderful dialect and the overall story line, characters and plot was well developed. It also portrayed a vivid setting for the story to take place in.
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Summary: The Yearling is a wonderful book.
Review: Jody is a young boy living in Florida on Baxter Island with Ma and Pa Baxter. The nearest neighbors are the Forresters on Forrester Island, that family consists of Ma and Pa Forrester and Lem , who is always picking fightsBuck-wheel, and Jody's best friend- Fodderwing. Each family has to hunt and raise livestock to survive. The trouble is the bears and wolves kill their livestock, so it is a fight for survival. One day Jody is out with his father, and his father (Pa Baxter) gets bitten by a rattler snake. To survive he shoots a doe to put it's liver on the bite. Jody notices a fawn under the tree behind the place where the doe lie dead. Pa is soon cured, Jody tells his family about the fawn. Jody had always wanted a pet and this was his only chance to have an excuse so he asks his ma and pa if he can keep it. He is allowed to keep it if he can find it again. When he finds it he goes to Fodderwing to have him name it, but when he gets there Fodderwing is dead. The fawn was named Flag, in Fodderwing's honer. In time Flag and Jody develop an unforgettable and trusting friendship. But what is this talk of Flag eating the crops and is he as bad as the wild animals? Why do they say Jody needs to shoot him, and will he? The author writes as if she were Jody and has had the exact same situation. This is very exciting and wonderful book. "Jody wandered west with Flag beside him. He carried Penny's shot gun over his shoulder. His heart beat and stopped and beat again. He said under his breath, 'I'll not do it. I'll just not.' He stopped in the road. He said out loud, 'They can't make me do it.' Flag looked at him with big eyes, then bent his head to a wisp of grass by the roadside. Jody walked on again slowly, 'I'll not. I'll just not. They kin beat me. They can kill me. I'll not' " (Rawlings, 104) The Yearling is an outstanding story that touched me deeply. I would recommend this book to anyone 14+ and especially anyone that has a deep relationship with a pet and had to deal with death. Nicole
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Summary: Touching and Moving Novel
Review: This is a great book, with great detail, great love and you wont want to put it down until it's finished. One of the best books I have ever read.
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Summary: Rawling did an excellent job.
Review: This book is great for the whole family. Although the book has some touching moments it is a must! Rawlings did an excellent job on describing the plot as well as the charactors. Jody Baxter is a very young and immature boy when the book opens. He has no friends, yet wants some. He is troubled by many deaths and usully has nothing to do. One day when Jody and Penny, Jodys dad, are hunting Penny is bit by a snake. Penny has to kill a deer for it's antitoxin. Jody feel really bad to let the yearling deer alone to die.Jody brings it home and cares for it. After a while the deer is causing too much of a problem for the family to handle. I personly recomend you read this book!!!
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Summary: about that person that said it was in the 1920's
Review: This book was pretty good, I thought it was sad, but well written. And to the person who said it took place in the 1920's...it didn't!! My class did a whole huge report on it and about the time peirod. It took place in the 1870. THAT'S before guitars and everything....
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Summary: Allows a reader to experience life in another time.
Review: Want to experience the Florida under the layers of concrete and Mickey Mouse ears? Read this book. The era is just after the Civil War when Florida had no lights or electric guitars. The story is poignant and real and though not for young children, young adults and teenagers will, for the most part enjoy it. A mature reader will learn about the flora and fauna of the area without realizing it and will certainly enjoy Ms. Rawlings gift. The characters are diverse and rich and I especially enjoyed the Forresters. If you are in a great hurry, or if you want to be artifically stimulated by high speed chases or chariots taveling at warp speed, then don't pick it up. But if you have never been to Florida, and you want to see the sun sparkling on a blue green spring surrounded by giant oaks with moss swaying on an April breeze, then read THE YEARLING and just close your eyes.
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Summary: This book was great!
Review: I loved this book. It describes Ocala, FL so exactly! Did you know it was translated into 37 different languages? Wow. I love the humor
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Summary: It was one of the best books that I have ever read.
Review: I think that this was a great book. It was so sad. I think that all the people who gave this book only one star are uncultured swine.
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