| Booktalk
#1
A ten
year old country boy has this thing about hunting. He waits years earning
enough to buy his own coon dogs. All the while, he is listening to Grandpa's
stories and tricks. His mom lets go as he spends nights catching coons
with his dogs. We watch him learn the woods and we witness the lessons
in fidelity that his dogs teach. An exciting conclusion is a hunting contest
that pits the best dogs against human frailty and the harsh Ozark elements.
Booktalk
#2
A
boy named Billy Coleman who lives in the Oklahoma Ozarks wants to buy two
coon hounds, but his parent can’t afford to buy them for Billy. Billy works,
buys the coons, trains them and they turn out to be the best hound dogs
in the Ozarks. They win the Gold Cup for the coon hunt. One night, he went
hunting and they treed a mountain lion, he jumps out of the tree and the
fight begins. Will the coon hounds win or is the mountain lion to much
for the little hounds? (Kurtis Dake, student, Mansfield High School)
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#3
Billy
is a kid who is sick for dogs. He wants only one type of dog and that is
a red boned coon hound. Billy works for 2 years to get enough money for
his dogs. He finally gets enough money and buys the dogs at his grandpa’s
store. Billy went to town about 30 miles down stream to get his dogs at
a packaging store. Billy spends the night in a cave along the river. However,
Billy encounters a mountain lion. How will Billy make it out of the cave
and make it back to his house? (Callen Calkins, student, Mansfield
High School)
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#4
Have you ever wanted something
so bad it made you sick? In the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson
Rawls, the main character Billy wants two coon hound hunting dogs so bad
it makes him sick and his mama is very worried about him. All he
can do is eat, sleep, and dream coon hounds. After working really
hard for two years, he saves up enough money and finally gets two coon
hounds of his own. Billy works with his dogs everyday and trains
Old Dan and Little Ann into the best coon hunting dogs in Cherokee county.
When Billy's grandpa invites Billy to go to a coon hunting competition,
Billy and his dogs tree the most coons and gain the respect of many hunters.
As the story goes on Old Dan and Little Ann prove to be more than just
hunting dogs, they turn out to be Billy's best friends and end up saving
his life. (Stefanie Rogers, sr-rogers@wiu.edu, college student) |
