No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
- ISBN10 0689846231
- ISBN13 9780689846236
- Publish Date 8 January 1999 (first published 1 January 1930)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Aladdin
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 528
- Language English