The Yearling

"“The Yearling,” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, is a great old Florida book."

"Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's "The Yearling" is one of the best books ever written about Florida; adults don't read it often nowadays because at some point it was miscategorized as a children's book."

"Poe and Dickens were important to me, and before them "The Yearling" and "The Secret Garden.""

"When I was about 12, I could fairly recite The Yearling."