4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Excellent book - don't think because you saw the movie you know the story. Inimitable Willie Morris has much to say and says it so winsomely.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
What a warm and lovely book! It made me nostalgic for a place and time I had never even been. While the dog, Skip, is amazing, the childhood of Willie Morris is common to many people who grew up in small towns in the 1940's - definitely a bygone era. You don't even have to love dogs to enjoy this book, but it would help!
Cute memoir for dog lovers.
A heartwarming memoir about a boy and his beloved dog. It's an easy read that shows life during the days of World War II. Morris captures life in a small Mississippi town without making it boring or overly sweet. I love this quote from the book. "The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart."