“The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939. Pulitzer Prize edition, with 14 illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
Young Jody Baxter lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra “Penny” Baxter, on a small farm in the animal-filled central Florida backwoods in the 1870s. Jody loves the outdoors and his family and he has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember. His mother says that they barely have enough food to feed themselves, let alone a pet, but he convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a fawn – named Flag – and it becomes his constant companion.
The book focuses on Jody’s life as he matures along with Flag and on Jody’s struggles with strained relationships, hunger, death of beloved friends, and the capriciousness of nature through a catastrophic flood. He experiences tender moments with his family, his fawn, and their neighbors and relatives. Along with his father, he comes face to face with the rough life of a farmer and hunter.
First published in March, 1938, “The Yearling” became the best-selling novel of 1938 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. It was adapted into a 1946 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr. (as young Jody), Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker.
Movie Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es3J3nOahnE
“The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939. Pulitzer Prize edition, with 14 illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
Young Jody Baxter lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra “Penny” Baxter, on a small farm in the animal-filled central Florida backwoods in the 1870s. Jody loves the outdoors and his family and he has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember. His mother says that they barely have enough food to feed themselves, let alone a pet, but he convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a fawn – named Flag – and it becomes his constant companion.
The book focuses on Jody’s life as he matures along with Flag and on Jody’s struggles with strained relationships, hunger, death of beloved friends, and the capriciousness of nature through a catastrophic flood. He experiences tender moments with his family, his fawn, and their neighbors and relatives. Along with his father, he comes face to face with the rough life of a farmer and hunter.
First published in March, 1938, “The Yearling” became the best-selling novel of 1938 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. It was adapted into a 1946 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr. (as young Jody), Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker.
Movie Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es3J3nOahnE