Contains:

Where the Red Fern Grows Connections: The pine of Akoya (Japanese folk tale) / retold by Rafe Martin -- The Christmas hunt (short story) / by Borden Deal -- Him (novel extract) from Bambi: a life in the woods / by Felix Salten -- Hunting yarns / compiled by Kemp P. Battle -- Mart Moody's bird dog (tall tale) / retold by Robert Bethke -- Davy Crockett meets his match (tall tale) -- Paul Bunyan's cornstalk (tall tale) / retold by Harold Courlander -- Momma's store (autobiography extract) from I know why the caged bird sings / by Maya Angelou -- Princess (short story) / by Nicholasa Mohr -- The saddest day the summer had (short story) / by Dick Perry -- Bloody murder (novel extract) from The original adventures of Hank the cowdog / by John R. Erickson -- Wilson Rawls (biographical sketch).