Featuring brand-new cover art by Mark Summers, this enduring classic--first published in 1940--is the story of a young boy and his devoted companion, a beautiful and very resourceful collie. Illustrations.
Author description
Born in Britain, Eric Knight (1897-1943) emigrated to the States as a teenager, where he wrote adult novels and stories for young readers, many of them set in his native Yorkshire, until his untimely death in a wartime accident.