The deceptively simple but extremely emotionally evocative story was suggested to Gardiner by an actual legend handed down in the area, though vague on names and dates (no date is given in the book, though the details suggest the late 19th century).
(It has 81 pages, but they're small pages with relatively large text and wide margins, and lots of black-and-white illustrations, this 30th anniversary edition reproducing the original ones by Marcia Sewall.) It proved to be a very quick read -an adult could read it inside of a half hour. Being about to be between books anyway, and being interested in connecting with him in a shared reading experience, I agreed. He recently read this book himself, and was excited about it enough to want to share his copy so I could read it too. My oldest grandson Philip (age 10, the same age as Willy, the protagonist of this very short kid's chapter book) is an avid reader who reads above grade level, an interest I obviously encourage. 6, 2019: I edited this just now to correct a minor typo. YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat Dec. It was made out to be this big grand gesture - Searchlight loved Willy so much that she gave her life.īut once you take the romanticism that the author tried to throw at the story, the ten-year-old forced his ill- prepared dog into a race she could not handle. Willy ran Searchlight so hard and long for the race that the dog's heart burst. Willy should be locked up for animal abuse. really? )Īnd then we get to that shit ending.
It was about a 2.5 star book - pretty bland writing, characters telling rather than showing, and a fairly unbelievable plot (ten year old handles an entire farm in his own. I'm so angry with the author about that ending. Will Willy win? Or will Willy lose the farm? Stone Fox, an Indian who races dogs, also entered. The farm is going under (Grandfather hasn't paid taxes in years) and the only way Little Willy can come up with the money is to enter himself and Searchlight into a dog sled race. Willy holds down the farm, brings in the crops and cares for his depressed grandfather all at the tender age of ten, with the help of his faithful dog, Searchlight.
Little Willy's grandfather gives up on life. Young William needs to save the farm, the crops and above all, his grandfather.Īlso me: They call him Little Willy. A book to be read with dignity and grace. I honestly have not gotten whiplash like that in years.
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