Pub Date: September 18, 2007
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0780
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.69" H x 7.61" L x 5.54" W ( 0.45 lbs) 256 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Classics | Action and Adventure | Animals | Dogs | Pets | Social Themes | Friendship
Description: Featuring brand-new cover art by Mark Summers, this enduring classic--first published in 1940--is the story of a young boy and his devoted companion, a beautiful and very resourceful collie. Illustrations.
Brief description: Eric Knight was born in 1897 in Yorkshire, England, the countryside that was the background for Lassie Come-Home. He moved to the United States as a teenager. After graduating from Cambridge Latin School in Massachusetts, Mr. Knight married and settled on a farm in Pennsylvania, where Lassie Come-Home was written and where the collie who inspired the book is buried. Mr. Knight was killed while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Review Quotes: "The most faithful of all dogs returns in Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight. ... This story of a boy and his beloved collie has been retold in many formats but appears here in its original unabridged version, with Marguerite Kirmse's charming b&w interior illustrations and new jacket art." - Publishers Weekly