Wilson rawls summer of the monkeys
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Every summer I get lost in books. Sometimes there is one that sticks with me for a long time. A very long time. This summer I read Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls. I can&#;t let go of the words, the feeling, the pictures in my head (just like I tell my preschoolers).
Whenever I read a new book, first I flip to the back cover to read about the author and the illustrator. Wilson Rawls wrote a classic, Where the Red Fern Grows. He grew up in the Midwest, and he did not have access to books until he was in high school. I was stunned. His writing is fluid. His words are a quiver of arrows, shot to the heart.
Jay Berry Lee and his family move to Oklahoma at the end of the nineteenth century. Life is good, full of hard work and the beauty of the land. Jay Berry and his dog discover some monkeys in a nearby river bottom, and the story takes off. Oh, how it takes off. I did not expect to be pulled in. Yet, I was on the farm. With the dog. And especially with Grandpa.
Have you ever read one line, one statement in a book, that knocked you off your feet? This one from Summer of the Monkeys did just that:
&#;It was the inside of my grandpa that really counted. He had a heart as big as a number four washtub; and inside that wrinkled old hide of his was e
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Summer of the Monkeys
children's story by Wilson Rawls
Summer of the Monkeys is a children's story written by Wilson Rawls. It was published by Doubleday (later released by Yearling Books) and was the winner of the William Allen White Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal.[1]
Plot summary
[edit]The book is set about the end of the nineteenth century. The protagonist is a year-old boy named Jay Berry Lee, who had enjoyed an idyllic, nature-based if impoverished childhood. Born to Missouri sharecroppers, he moves with his family to Oklahoma after his grandfather offers them free land. Daisy, his sister, has a crippled leg, and they devote much effort to gaining enough money to pay for reconstructive surgery. One day, while looking for their lost milk cow, Jay Berry discovers monkeys in a nearby river bottom. Visiting his grandfather's store, he learns that they have escaped from a traveling circus, which has offered a vast reward for their capture: $ for the chief monkey, "Jimbo", and $2 each for the others. Jay Berry makes multiple attempts to capture them using traps and a net borrowed from his grandfather, but he gains only scratches and bites from them, at one point even losing his britches in the process.
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