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Old Yeller (HarperClassics)Paperback – December 23, 2003
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A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children’s books ever written,Old Yelleris a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend.
When his father sets out on a cattle drive toward Kansas for the summer, fourteen-year-old Travis Coates is left to take care of his family and their farm. Living in Texas Hill Country during the 1860s, Travis comes to face new, unanticipated, and often perilous responsibilities in the frontier wilderness.
A particular nuisance is a stray yellow dog that shows up one day and steals food from the family. But the big canine who Travis calls “Old Yeller” proves his worth by defending the family from danger. And Travis ultimately finds help and comfort in the courage and unwavering love of the dog who comes to be his very best friend.
Fred Gipson’s novel is an eloquently simple story that is both exciting and deeply moving. It stands alongside works likeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,Where The Red Fern Grows,andShilohas a beloved and enduring classic of literature. Originally published in 1956 to instant acclaim,Old Yellerlater inspired a hit film from Walt Disney. Just as Old Yeller inevitably makes his way into the Coates family’s hearts, this book will find its own special place in readers’ hearts.
- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level5 - 6
- Lexile measure910L
- Dimensions5 x 0.25 x 6.5 inches
- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication dateDecember 23, 2003
- ISBN-100064403823
- ISBN-13978-0064403825
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“Exciting and heartwarming.” —School Library Journal
“Occasionally, but very rarely, one reads a book with the increasing certainty, as one turns the pages, that a classic is unfolding before one’s eyes.” —Chicago Tribune
“The combination of excellent writing and the sensitivity to human emotions places it on a shelf with the classics in juvenile literature.” —Saturday Review of Literature
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The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene.
Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old Yeller?
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Chapter One
We called him Old Yeller. The name had a sort of double meaning. One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow, a color that we called "yeller" in those days, The other meant that when he opened his head, the sound he let out came closer to being a yell than a bark.
I remember like yesterday how he strayed in out of nowhere to our log cabin on Birdsong Creek. He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. That's how much I'd come to think of the big yeller dog.
He came in the late 1860's, the best I remember. Anyhow, it was the year that Papa and a bunch of other Salt Licks settlers formed a "pool herd" of their little separate bunches of steers and trailed them to the new cattle market at Abilene, Kansas.
This was to get "cash money," a thing that all Texans were short of in those years right after the Civil War. We lived then in a new country and a good one. As Papa pointed out the day the men talked over making the drive, we had plenty of grass, wood, and water. We bad wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts.
"In fact," Papa wound up, "all we lack having a tight tail-bolt on the world is a little cash money. And we can get that at Abilene."
Well, the idea sounded good, but some of the men still hesitated. Abilene was better than six hundred miles north of the Texas bill country we lived in. It would take months for the men to make the drive and ride back home. And all that time the womenfolks and children of Salt Licks would be left in a wild frontier settlement to make out the best they could.
Still, they needed money, and they realized that whatever a man does, he's bound to take some risks. So theytalked it over with each other and with their women and decided it was the thing to do. They told their folks what to do in case the Indians came off the reservation or the coons got to eating the corn or the!)cars got to killing too many hogs. Then they gathered their cattle, burned a trail brand on their hips, and pulled out on the long trail to Kansas.
I remember how it was the day Papa left. I remember his standing in front of the cabin with his horse saddled, his gun in his scabbard, and his bedroll tied on back of the cantle. I remember how tall and straight and handsome he looked, with his high-crowned hat and his black mustaches drooping in cow-horn curves past the corners of his mouth. And I remember how Mama was trying to keep from crying because he was leaving and how Little Arliss, who was only five and didn't know much, wasn't trying to keep from crying at all In fact, 'he xas howling his head off; not because Papa was leaving, but because he couldn't go, too.
I wasn't about to cry. I was fourteen years old, pretty near a grown man. I stood back and didn't let on for a minute that I wanted to cry.
Papa got through loving up Mama and Little Arliss and mounted his horse. I looked up at him. He motioned for me to come along. So I walked beside his horse down the trail that led under the big liveoaks and past the spring.
When he'd gotten out of hearing of the house, Papa reached down and put a hand on my shoulder.
"Now, Travis," he said, "you're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family, I want you to act like one. You take care of Mama and Little Arliss. You look after the work and don't wait around for your mama to point out what needs to be done. Think you can do that?"
"Yessir," I said.
"Now, there's the cows to milk and wood to cut and young pigs to mark and fresh meat to shoot. But mainly there's the corn patch. If you don't work it right or if you let the varmints eat up the roasting ears, we'll be without bread corn for the winter."
"Yessir," I said.
"All right, boy. I'll be seeing you this fall."
I stood there and let him ride on. There wasn't any more to say.
Suddenly I remembered and went running down the trail after him, calling for him to wait.
He pulled up his horse and twisted around in the saddle. "Yeah, boy," he said. "What is it?"
"That horse," I said.
"What horse?" he said, like he'd never heard me mention it before. "You mean you're wanting a horse?"
"Now, Papa," I complained. "You know I've been aching all over for a horse to ride. I've told you time and again."
I looked up to catch him grinning at me and felt foolish that I hadn't realized he was teasing.
"What you're needing worse than a horse is a good dog."
"Yessir," I said, "but a horse is what I'm wanting the worst...
(Continues...)
Excerpted fromOld YellerbyGipson, FredExcerpted by permission.
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Copyright © 1980 Patricia MacLachlan. All rights reserved.
ISBN: 0-06-440288-6
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- Publisher : HarperCollins; Newbery Honor Book edition (December 23, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0064403823
- ISBN-13 : 978-0064403825
- Reading age : 9 - 12 years, from customers
- Lexile measure : 910L
- Grade level : 5 - 6
- Item Weight : 4.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.25 x 6.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank:#5,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With Old Yeller, Fred Gipson secured his place as one of the finest novelists in America. The book was published to instant acclaim and has become one of the most beloved children's classics ever written. Since its publication in 1956, Old Yeller has won countless awards, including the 1957 Newbery Honor. Mr. Gipson's other works include both fiction and non-fiction. He grew up in the Texas hill country and died in 1973.
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Es jetzt im Original zu lesen hat mir viel Freude gemacht. Es ist eine wunderschöne "Heile Welt" Geschichte, und ich war erstaunt, wieviel ich davon noch kannte.
さてOld Yellerを đọc んでいて tư い ra した の は, tư が tiểu học giáo thấp năm học の thời gian に trong mộng になっていた『 màu vàng い lão khuyển 』という bổn でした. Lúc ấy はスーツ tư の おじいさんが năm に một lần, hà đài に đại きな rương をくくりつけた tự 転 xe でやってきて, まるで phú sơn の dược bán り の ように rương から bổn を huyền quan trước に cũng べたも の です. そ の trung から mẫu が mua ってくれた の が『 màu vàng い lão khuyển 』でした. Gì độ くり phản し đọc んだか biết れません. そ の nội dung がOld Yellerに thật によく tựa ている の です.
“50 năm trở lên trước の bổn が quả たして nay khoảnh…” とは tư いましたが may mắn にも sách cổ の thông tín buôn bán で thấy つけることができ, すぐに lấy り gửi せました. Giới いた『 màu vàng い lão khuyển 』 ( nhi đồng hiến chương ái の sẽ 1960 ) を một mực thấy て, Old Yeller の コピーだと tin tưởng しました. Biểu giấy には ánh họa Old Yeller ( Walt Disney 1957 ) から の スチール chân dung が sử われ, “Nhật Bản danh khuyển cảm động câu chuyện mọi người ca tụng giáo dục truyện tranh vật ngữ” の văn tự が nhảy っていたからです. ネタ nguyên は đa phần, ánh họa Old Yellerか tân triều xã の 『 màu vàng い lão khuyển 』 ( 1959 ), もしくは tiểu học quán の 『 màu vàng い lão khuyển 』(1959 ) でしょう. アメリカ の danh khuyển を Nhật Bản の danh khuyển へと変 thân させる công việc tỉ mỉ をいくつか nhặt ってみますと, thời đại → nam bắc chiến tranh sau vsアジア・ Thái Bình Dương chiến tranh sau / sân khấu →テキサス châu ソールトブランチ の khai thác nông trường vs Hokkaido は võng đi の mục trường / phụ thân の số ヶ nguyệt の không ở → tiền mặt を đến るためにカンザスへ ngưu truy いvs Sapporo に ra giá ぎ/ món chính →トウモロコシvsジャガイモ/ đồ uống thủy → dũng き thủy vs phòng trong の giếng hộ / lên sân khấu する hoang dại động vật →アライグマやリス ( lương thực ), thanh サギ, こうもり, なまず ( lương thực ), ガラガラ xà, トカゲ, ツバメ, スカンク, コヨーテ, も の まね điểu, bảy mặt điểu ( lương thực ), lộc ( lương thực ), dã ブタ, trâu rừng, lang, hùng, heo などvsウサギ ( lương thực ) や dã khuyển, hùng, ếch といった cụ hợp です. Một chút, “old” の ý vị を lấy り vi えて “Tuổi già いた” としたために, “みすぼらしい lão khuyển” が “もと の たくましい thể trạng やうつくしい màu vàng い mao なみをとりもどし” “Đạn hoàn よりも sớm く đi りまわってえも の をおいかけました” などとトンチンカンなことになってもいますが, nửa thế kỷ をまたいで の đọc thư は đại いに hứng thú thâm いも の となりました.
Nguyên tác の オリジナリティーや làm 権などどこ thổi く phong, かつて の Nhật Bản は hôm nay の Trung Quốc や Hàn Quốc といい thắng bại だったんですね. ざら giấy に bạch hắc in ấn ながら, ta が gia でも tay が giới く1 sách 60 yên という liêm 価 ( nguyên tác に trung thật で toàn ページがカラー in ấn の tiểu học quán は120 yên ) で buôn bán してくれた nhi đồng hiến chương ái の sẽ に cảm tạ です.