Old Yeller Audiobook (Free)

Granted the Newbery Honor

Whenever a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives due to the intensity from the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a reserve, we submit, can be Old Yeller; to read this eloquently basic story of the youngster and his pup in the Tx hill country can be an memorable and deeply moving experience.

When his father sets out on a cattle drive for the summertime, fourteen-year-old Travis is left to take care of his family and their farm, and he faces new, unanticipated and often perilous responsibilities in the wilderness of early fronteir Texas. But Travis is not alone. He finds help and ease and comfort in the courage and unwavering like of the stray pet who comes to be his most faithful and very closest friend: the best yellow pup Travis calls ‘Old Yeller.’

An enduring and award-winning American basic, Fred Gipson’s Old Yeller stands as one of the most beloved books ever produced in this country, and one that will live in the hearts and thoughts of visitors for generations to come.