Childhood Reading

My favorite book when I was a child was called “Where the Red Fern Grows”. It is a book about a boy that loves to hunt but he does not have any dogs that he can hunt with. He decides to save up all of his money, penny by penny. It takes him a long time but he finally does it. The dogs were being sold in another town a little ways from where he lived so one night he snuck out of his house and walked all the way there. The next day he returned with the dogs and his parents were very surprised. He grew up with those dogs and took them hunting and got very talented. The dogs became just like family to him and his family. They also became the best hunting dogs in town. Eventually the dogs grew old and died and the boy was so heartbroken. He loved his dogs so much. He buried them by a tree in his yard and after a few weeks a red fern started growing in the place that they were buried. The boy loved this red fern and took it as a sign from God that the dogs were okay.

This book had a great impact on me and it was a big literary sponsor. I definitely read it more than three times. The first time that I had read it was in school. My teacher had assigned it to my class in the third grade. Ever since then I fell in love with that book and it instantly became my favorite. I would always think about it and I got sad when I had finished reading it. I don’t know why I liked that book so much. Maybe it related to me in some way when I was at that age. All I know is that was my favorite book of all time and still is.