书名：Old Yeller 老黄狗
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数910L
作者：Fred Gipson
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2003
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780064403825
商品尺寸：12.7 x 0.6 x 16.5 cm
包装：平装
页数：192

Old Yeller《老黄狗》获奖多次，其中包括每年一度的纽伯瑞儿童文学奖，被视为很优秀的悲伤童书之一。1957年，迪士尼将其改编成电影。整部电影画面优美宁静，对人与狗之间的感情刻画细腻，zui后一幕被奉为电影史上催泪的瞬间之一。自从1957年上映以来，好评不断，在北美当年的票房是二百万美金，至今在“烂番茄”上的新鲜度仍是100%。

推荐理由：
1. 荣获纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖；
2 迪士尼经典电影《老黄狗》原著小说；
3. 英文原版，内容无删减，纸质护眼。
A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children’s books ever written,Old Yeller is a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend.
When his father sets out on a cattle drive toward Kansas for the summer, fourteen-year-old Travis Coates is left to take care of his family and their farm. Living in Texas Hill Country during the 1860s, Travis comes to face new, unanticipated, and often perilous responsibilities in the frontier wilderness.
A particular nuisance is a stray yellow dog that shows up one day and steals food from the family. But the big canine who Travis calls “Old Yeller” proves his worth by defending the family from danger. And Travis ultimately finds help and comfort in the courage and unwavering love of the dog who comes to be his very best friend.
Fred Gipson’s novel is an eloquently simple story that is both exciting and deeply moving. It stands alongside works like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Where The Red Fern Grows, and Shiloh as a beloved and enduring classic of literature. Originally published in 1956 to instant acclaim,Old Yeller later inspired a hit film from Walt Disney. Just asOld Yeller inevitably makes his way into the Coates family’s hearts, this book will find its own special place in readers’ hearts.

Review
“A bestseller for generations, the combination of excellent writing and the sensitivity to human emotions places it on a shelf with the classics in juvenile literature.” — Saturday Review of Literature

“Exciting and heartwarming indeed.” — SLJ.

“A moving segment of early frontier days.”  — Kirkus Reviews

“Occasionally, but very rarely, one reads a book with the increasing certainty, as one turns the pages, that a classic is unfolding before one’s eyes.” —Chicago Tribune

故事发生在美国刚成立时期，西部地区处于开荒状态。主人公是一个名叫特拉维斯的十四岁男孩，他在父亲离家工作期间，担负起照顾全家的责任。早期的德克萨斯州边界是个荒野地区，特拉维斯不得不面对一些危险的突发情况。这时，他们一家遇到了一只流浪的大黄狗。特拉维斯叫这只聪明勇敢并且忠诚的大黄狗为“Old Yeller”，他们一起追野兔、赶野猪、战黑熊……男孩与一起并肩作战的大黄狗建立了深厚的感情，并从与大黄狗的相处之中，特拉维斯也体会到了生命的责任和成长的真谛。但尽全力保护一家人的大黄狗后来的下场很是悲惨，塔拉维斯和他的好拍档会是怎样一个结局呢？
At first, Travis couldn’t stand the sight of Old Yeller
The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene.
Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis’s family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old Yeller?

WithOld Yeller, Fred Gipson secured his place as one of the finest novelists in America. The book was published to instant acclaim and has become one of the most beloved children’s classics ever written. Since its publication in 1956,Old Yeller has won countless awards, including the 1957 Newbery Honor. Mr. Gipson’s other works include both fiction and non-fiction. He grew up in the Texas hill country and died in 1973.

We called him Old Yeller. The name had a sort of double meaning. One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow, a color that we called “yeller” in those days. The other meant that when he opened his head, the sound he let out came closer to being a yell than a bark.
I remember like yesterday how he strayed in out of nowhere to our log cabin on Bird- song Creek. He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. That’s how much I’d come to think of the big yeller dog.
He came in the late 1860’s, the best Ire- member. Anyhow, it was the year that Papa and a bunch of other Salt Licks settlers formed a “pool herd” of their little separate bunches of steers and trailed them to the new cattle market at Abilene, Kansas.
This was to get “cash money,” a thing that all Texans were short of in those years right after the Civil War. We lived then in a new country and a good one. As Papa pointed out the day the men talked over making the drive, we had plenty of grass, wood, and water. We had wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts.
“In fact,” Papa wound up, “all welack having a tight tail-holt on the world is a little cash money. And we can get that at Abilene.”
Well, the idea sounded good, but some of the men still hesitated. Abilene was better than six hundred miles north of the Texas hill country we lived in. It would take months for the men to make the drive and ride back home. And all that time thewomenfolks and children of Salt Licks would be left in a wild frontier settlement to make out the best they could.