Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard

They are poor, but they get by.Ī wealthy cattleman named Mr. Both Danny and his father live in a cabin together and make a living off the land by hunting, trapping, fishing, and selling honey and pelts. Danny–like his father–is an avid outdoorsman. The story follows Danny Pickett, a seventeen-year-old boy living in the Wintapi wilderness. For the most part, the book is all text with only a few simple black and white illustrations every twenty pages or so. Our copy has seen its better days although, it’s still structurally sound. This printing is 218-pages in length with twelve total chapters. This paperback edition was published in 1980 by Bantam Books, but the first official publication was in 1945.

That’s where we found our copy of Big Red.

They must have pulled these books out of the basement because they were all old books that looked like they hadn’t been read in years.

Years ago, they had boxes of old chapter books and classic stories from an elementary school. It’s a charitable sale for those less fortunate in the community. Every summer, a city near our home has a community garage sale where people donate things they no longer want.