The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Jun 2011 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet.

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.

Ratings and reviews

Stupendous! this book is simply too good not to read, i've read it since i was twelve, and four years later i am still moved by the pure emotion that jody exhibits for flag

I first read this book the summer of 2010, and now, looking back, it's an even better book than it was before! This is just one of the few books that actually gets better with the passing of time.

I read the ending and I don't think I could handle it '-' but it's a good book

About the author

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953) lived for twenty-five years in Cross Creek, Florida, the area that is the setting for The Yearling, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. She is the author of several earlier novels as well as a memoir, Cross Creek, which inspired the acclaimed motion picture of the same name.