What was the nationality of the author of the 1961 children's novel about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs?
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Wilson Rawls Woodrow Wilson Rawls, (September 24, 1913 - December 16, 1984) was an American writer best known for his books "Where the Red Fern Grows" and "Summer of the Monkeys".
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Where the Red Fern Grows Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs.
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Harriet Theresa Comstock Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860–1925) was an American novelist and author of children's books.
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Farmer Boy Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1933. It was the second-published one in the "Little House" series but it is not related to the first, which that of the third directly continues. Thus the latter, "Little House on the Prairie", is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of "the Laura Years".
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The Thief and the Dogs The Thief and the Dogs (Arabic: اللص والكلاب‎ ‎ ; "El-lis's wal-kilab") is one of the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's most celebrated works. He further developed his theme of existentialism using stream-of-consciousness and surrealist techniques It charts the life of Said Mahran, a thief recently released from jail and intent on having his vengeance on the people who put him there. The novel was published in 1961, and Said's despair reflects disappointment in revolution and new order in Egypt—as Said is not only a thief, but a kind of revolutionary anarchist.
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The Incredible Journey The Incredible Journey (1961), by Scottish author Sheila Burnford, is a children's book first published by Hodder, which tells the story of three pets as they travel 300 mi through the Canadian wilderness searching for their beloved masters. It depicts the suffering and stress of an arduous journey, together with the unwavering loyalty and courage of the three animals. The story is set in the northwestern part of Ontario, Canada which has many lakes, rivers, and widely dispersed small farms and towns.
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Claude Brown Claude Brown (February 23, 1937 - February 2, 2002) is the author of "Manchild in the Promised Land", published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. He also published "Children of Ham" (1976).
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Gene Kemp Gene Kemp née Rushton (27 December 1926 – 4 January 2015) was a British author best known for her children's books. Her first novel, "The Pride of Tamworth Pig" was published in 1972. She won the British Carnegie Medal for "The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler" (1977).
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Michael Bond Thomas Michael Bond {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (13 January 1926 – 27 June 2017), who wrote under the pen name Michael Bond, was a British author. He is best known for a series of fictional stories for children, featuring the character of Paddington Bear. More than 35 million Paddington books have been sold around the world, and the characters have also been featured in film and on television. His first book was published in 1958 and his last in 2017, a span of 59 years.
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Helen Bannerman Helen Brodie Cowan Bannerman ("née" Watson; February 25, 1862 in Edinburgh – October 13, 1946 in Edinburgh), was a Scottish author of children's books. She is best known for her first book, "Little Black Sambo" (1899).
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Christine Chaundler Christine Chaundler (5 September 1887 - 15 December 1972 ) was a British children's author, who also wrote under the name "Peter Martin".
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Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett ( ; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon"), Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man"), and the Continental Op ("Red Harvest" and "The Dain Curse").
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Charles D. Alexander Charles Dewey Alexander (October 27, 1897 – 1962) was an American children’s writer of short stories and novels.
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Arthur Catherall Arthur Catherall (1906–1980) was an English author, mostly of works for children.
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Richard Armstrong (author) Richard Armstrong (18 June 1903 – 30 May 1986) was an English author who wrote for both adults and children. Most of his books were novels set at sea, or sea stories. For one of those, "Sea Change", he won the 1948 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. He is also known for a biography of Grace Darling in which he challenges the conventional story: "Grace Darling: Maid and Myth" (1965). He is often described on the cover of his books as "author and mariner".
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Robert Lawson (author) Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892 – May 27, 1957) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. His work was widely admired, and he became the first, and so far only, person to be given both the Caldecott Medal, for "They Were Strong and Good" (1941), and a Newbery Award, for "Rabbit Hill" (1945).
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Call It Courage Call It Courage (published as The Boy Who Was Afraid in the United Kingdom) is a 1940 children's novel written and illustrated by American author Armstrong Sperry. The novel won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1941.
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Claire Huchet Bishop Claire Huchet Bishop (1899 – 13 March 1993) was a Swiss-born American children's writer and librarian. She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, "Pancakes-Paris" (1947) and "All Alone" (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for "Twenty and Ten" (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: "The Five Chinese Brothers", illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.
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The Foundling Boy The Foundling Boy is a 1975 novel by the French writer Michel Déon. The original French title is Le jeune homme vert, which means "the green young man". It tells the story of a boy who is found at the doorstep of a childless couple in 1919, and follows the naive boy through his education and travels during the interwar period.
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The White Deer The White Deer is a 96-page children's novel written by James Thurber (author of "The Thirteen Clocks" and "The Wonderful O") in 1945. It is a fairy tale about the quest of the three sons of King Clode (Thag and Gallow, the hunters, and Jorn, the poet) who are set perilous tasks to win the heart and hand of a princess without her memories who had once been a beautiful white deer. The cover and four color plates were illustrated by Don Freeman.
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The Plague Dogs The Plague Dogs is the third novel by Richard Adams, author of "Watership Down", about two dogs who escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. It was first published in 1977, and features a few location maps drawn by Alfred Wainwright, a fellwalker and author. The conclusion of the book involves two real-life characters, Adams' long-time friend Ronald Lockley, and the world-famous naturalist Sir Peter Scott. Having seen a manuscript, both men readily agreed to be identified with the characters and opinions that Adams had attributed to them, as is shown in Adams' preface to the book.
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Clifford (character) Clifford is a protagonist of the "Clifford the Big Red Dog" book series, written by Norman Bridwell, and originally published in 1963, and the television series of the same name, which is based upon it, and ran from 2000-2003.