KIRKUS REVIEW
Billy Colman's passion for a hunting dog drives the ten year old to unremitting labor to earn enough to buy the pair he wants. After two years he is able to have Grandp send away for Dan and Little Ann. Their training is successful, and boy and dogs glory in the joys of coon hunting. Billy learns he cannot let his dogs down even when this calls for superhuman efforts on his part. He fells a giant tree to get a coon, he fights a bigger boy to vindicate his dogs, and he is rewarded by the dogs' uncanny abilities to trail their prey. They win a competition and survive a blizzard and when they encounter a mountain lion boy and dogs save each other's lives. The rapport between the boy and his companions, the wonders of prowling the Ozark woods, the pursuit of ringtails, the simplicity of the Oklahoma life make this a book of unadorned naturalness for an audience with an outdoor bent.

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When I stopped by the Amanda Circle Little Free Library to leave a book, I found this book had been chosen. I hope it is having wonderful adventures with enthusiastic readers. Speaking of enthusiasm, Amanda Circle is worth visiting after dusk. The street is ablaze then with the Christmas spirit.