![]() ![]() He patiently trains them, and they become one of the best coon-dog teams in the area. ![]() It takes him several years to earn the money, but he perseveres and gets his hunting dogs. But not in this book!īilly’s dream has always been to own two coon dogs. In present-time, the police would have been alerted, freeway signs would be flashing amber alerts, and everyone would be hysterically looking for a missing child. When he arrives back home several days later, his family said they figured that was where he went. Near the beginning of the book, he walks miles to a neighboring town to collect the dogs he ordered, but doesn’t bother to tell his family. Would today’s children even be able to relate to him? Billy lives in the Ozark Mountains, doesn’t go to school, does heavy labor with his father, and regularly goes out at night to hunt raccoons (“coons”) in the dark. Billy, the main character in the story, is a child, but is so far from what today’s kids are like. This children’s novel was written nearly sixty years ago, but has been reprinted many times, and is still read in schools across the country. ![]()
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