Lassie Come-Home

Eric Knight

Square Fish, Sep 18, 2007 - Juvenile Fiction - 256 pages

Lassie is Joe’s prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe’s father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland—too far a journey for any dog to make alone . . . But Lassie is not just any dog.

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Review: Lassie Come-Home

User Review  - Amy Keane - Goodreads

I read this to my son recently and it is wonderful! A friend gave it to me because she and I have a dream-in-planning to visit England next summer with our families. It takes place in Northern England ...

Review: Lassie Come-Home

User Review  - Kateandthegirlz - Goodreads

Just beautiful! A fantastic story about a boy and his dog. I love the vignettes as Lassie travels across the Scottish country side. I bet you will shed a tear at the end but it is worth it!

About the author

Eric Knight was born in 1897 in Yorkshire, England, the countryside that was the background for Lassie Come-Home. He moved to the United States as a teenager. After graduating from Cambridge Latin School in Massachusetts, Eric Knight married and settled on a farm in Pennsylvania, where Lassie Come-Home was written and where the collie who inspired the book is buried.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lassie Come-Home
• Author: Eric Knight
• Illustrated by: Marguerite Kirmse
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Square Fish, 2007
• ISBN: 0312371314, 9780312371319
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Dogs; Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Friendship