After posting about Where the Red Fern Grows, I found out that Wilson Rawls wrote another book: The Summer of the Monkeys. How I have gone through life never before hearing of this story, I do not know. Everything beautiful about his first book is even stronger in his second. The characters have great depth. The scenery is detailed with rich, thick vocabulary. The story holds lessons far beyond mere entertainment. |
My boys and I again enjoyed this read-aloud and followed it up with a viewing of both movies. Here are two of my favorite passages: