5 Childrens Books by Jim Kjelgaard
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Overview: James Arthur Kjelgaard was an American author of young adult literature.
Born in New York City, New York, Jim Kjelgaard is the author of more than forty novels, the most famous of which is 1945’s "Big Red." It sold 225,000 copies by 1956 and was made into a 1962 Walt Disney film with the same title, Big Red. His books were primarily about dogs and wild animals, often with animal protagonists and told from the animal’s point of view.
Jim Kjelgaard committed suicide in 1959, after suffering for several years from chronic pain and depression.
Genre: Fiction > Children/Young Adult
Buckskin Brigade
This book is a tribute to daring men whose names are forgotten, but whose deeds and spirit illuminate every page of American history. As the westward march of civilization made its slow way over and through successive barriers of forest and prairie and mountain until it had spanned three thousand miles from ocean to ocean, it followed the moccasined paths of nameless men in buckskin. Always, beyond the towns, the settlements, the log-cabin clearings, were "the adventurers of the far side of the hill."
Rescue Dog of the High Pass
Franz Halle felt he was worthless because he could not manage book learning, but his schoolmaster and the village pastor knew that the boy had a priceless knowledge all his own. The kindly priest secured work for Franz at near-by St. Bernard Hospice, helping a gentle giant of a man who made it possible for him to keep his beloved Alpine mastiff, Caesar, although the huge animal refused to earn his keep, even by turning the spit. When the scarcity of food forced Caesar’s reluctant banishment, Franz—who had joined the monks in their daily patrol of the dangerous passes—proved that where even he, with all his rare knowledge of the ways of the blizzards, might fail, a dog could detect a man buried under an avalanche! So Franz and his brave helper initiated the rescue work of the St. Bernard dogs that was to become famous throughout the world.
Swamp Cat
Rousing, adventurous tale about the fortunes of muscrat hunters
The Black Fawn
Soon after Bud Sloan arrives at Gram and Gramps Bennett’s farm, he finds a black fawn in the woods, and from that moment, begins to change from a frightened city orphan to a Pennsylvania farmer and woodsman.
The Lost Wagon
Why would a farmer exchange his plowed fields for a wilderness? Why would a husband and father take his family from civilization into an untamed land? In the middle of the last century, thousands of Americans pushed westward into the unknown–and Joe Tower, who had never been fifty miles from his birthplace, was one of them. THE LOST WAGON tells the gripping, warmly human story of why he ventured along the Oregon Trail and of how he and his family met its hazards….
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