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Yellow Eyes (Caxton Classics)

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I too agree with Stan from Lockport and the others who read Yellow Eyes as a kid and never forgot it. I experienced all of the elation, anger, awe, pain, fear, admiration, frustration and excitement when I read it. I remember the native American who used the ink to render Yellow Eye's poisoned meat inpalatable. He was the only friend Yellow Eyes had among the humans, and Yellow Eyes was able to sense this fact and could also sense this man's pure-heartedness and the goodness in his soul. I remember the leap from the tree, and the fight with the airdales (<-sp?)and the attack in the cave back entrance of the man who would kill him. Yellow Eyes chose not to kill that man. Yellow Eyes' life is an incredible journey from the grips of death to starvation to hunger to adulthood to dominance, becoming a legendary force of nature among the humans and animals in his domain.

This is a story that will enchant and delight children of all ages.

I can't have read this book fewer than a hundred times during my childhood, and I still dust it off every year at least. The storyline is great, but the authors descriptive language is what makes this book a classic. You see through yellow eyes into the wilderness he lives in.

I read this book when I was a kid and remember it as one of my favorites. Recently I found it in a box of old books at my mother's house and brought it out to read to my kids. They where just as spell bound as I was. It is one of the most successful books at seeing life through the eyes of a wild animal without huminizing the animal. It does harken back to a time when the govermant paid people to kill animals rather then preserve them. That is a little confussing to kids but is a valuable history lesson.

"Yellow Eyes" is the first book that I can remember picking out from my school library, back when I was in 2nd grade at Des Moines Christian School. I remember this distinctly--I had to give them my last name in the library and I did not know how to spell it! Like other reviewers here, I can remember feeling for this cougar as it made its way. It imparted in me a deep respect for nature. To this day, the cougar is my "favorite animal", no doubt largely due to the influence of this tale. I bought a copy for my own son to read.

I, too, read Yellow Eyes, a book gotten from the Weekly Reader, in the sixties. I will always remember it. It touched me so well that about two years ago I set out to find a copy. I found an original copy and paid 45 dollars for it. It was a bargin In my eighth grade English class I wrote a poem about it and received an A.

His long teeth glistened in the sun.
Dead upon him was my gun.
He knew that I was armed and frightened.
His tail twitched. His musclles tightened.
Then in one long single bound,
He knocked me flying to the ground.
Now all the birds around him sing.
He has proven he is king.

The first thing I ever wrote thanks to Rutherford Montgomery.

I still love anything with his name on it, but I will never forget Yellow Eyes.

I read this book when I was in elementary school (going on 43 here!) and until a year ago, I had this book in my collection to pass on to my kids, but sadly it has disappeared. I used to love this book and I love reading books about animals and believe it or not this book made me cry as did the book Snow Dog and Old Yeller. I even did a report on Yellow Eyes when I read it for school.

This is a book that I heard about when I was young and never read until just recently. Yellow Eyes is a cougar, and has adventures growing up. I used it as summer reading for my children. We sat together and I read the book to them, chapter by chapter. We then discussed all that we read. Reading this book is truly a moving experience as Yellow Eyes faced many dangers and some unexpected twists and turns. The writing is superb and the story development is excellent. If you are a fan of Avi and Poppy and Rye or Ereth books, this is for you!

Picked this up at a Scholastic bookmobile at school, when I was a but a wee tot -- relatively speaking. STill one of my favorite books, and it held up when I re-read it decades later!