DESERT DOG

by Jim Kjelgaard ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 15, 1956

In his second animal story with a southwest setting (see Lion Hound) Kjelgaard exhibits the well wrought narrative style that points with a firm finger to the basic instincts of self preservation and love, in man and in his animals. This time the central figure is Tawny, a greyhound who runs off from his kennels to the desert after the death of a beloved training master. There he makes friends with a young collie, Sable, who is also lost, and an arch enemy of Brutus, leader of a pack of wild dogs. As Tawny must himself become wild enough to survive the dangers of the desert, graphically described, there are tense moments, one of which Dick, a young rancher, witnesses from a distance. Dick makes friends with the wounded Sable first but in another battle, in which Tawny saves the rancher's life, there is the basis of a new future of friendship for the greyhound too.

Pub Date: Sept. 15, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holiday House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION