Description
Good dust jacket, illustration of a girl a fox in the woods, wear at the head and foot of spine and all edges, several small tears, price-clipped. The Very Good binding is tan cloth over boards, black lettering on spine, black lettering on rear cover “An Approved Selection of Calling All Girls Book Club”, slight bumping to corners, blacked out name on front paste down, black marker name on rear paste down. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The black-and-white illustrations by Harper Johnson can be found through the book.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
Run, REDDY, Run by Betty Biesterveld ILLUSTRATED BY HARPER JOHNSON. Henrilee was tired of roads that led to strange places and new schools, She was tired of leaving behind her the wild animals she had befriended. If only she could have a “”permanent”” pet and live in a house that stayed in one place! But cats strayed from new homes, dogs meant trouble with farmers, and the Fentons were always moving.
They took their knock-down shack apart every few months and set it up in a new camp, for Henrilee’s father was a migrant logger and when one job was finished, he had to move on to the next one. Now they had come from West Virginia to Ohio, and Henrilee knew she wasn’t going to like it up here as soon as Jiggers Thompson had called her a hillbilly
Then, the first time she went to explore the strange woods, Henrilee found the best pet she had ever had. It was a fox cub she rescued when Jiggers shot the rest of the litter.
In spite of her parents’ warnings that Reddy would leave her when he was full-grown, that he must be turned loose the first time there “neighbor trouble,’ Henrilee was determined to keep the fox forever, And Jiggers was just as determined that Reddy must be destroyed because, he said, all foxes were outlaws.
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
BETTY BIESTERVELD was born in Paducah, Kentucky, and lived there and in a number of towns in Ohio when she was growing up. Following her graduation from Mount Union College, she taught in the elementary schools of New Philadelphia, Williamsfield, and Ashtabula, Ohio. Her husband, too, is a schoolteacher, and the Biestervelds and their two small daughters live in Akron. Run, Reddy, Run is based on Mrs. Biesterveld’s knowledge of the “shack people, migrant loggers’` families, like the Fentons in this story, and on her own experiences with a pet fox.
