It was chosen to play Lassie in the MGM-Mayer film Lassie Come Home….Pal (dog)Pal in 1942, and then named after him. It is critical that parents understand that this film is a tear-jerker and contains some emotional scenes involving poverty and danger. It will be a perilous journey home for Lassie as he tries to meet Joe, the boy he loves. In 1966, an episode of the show was shot in North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest. In 1943, the book was adapted into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall. A short story written by Knight appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1938 and a full-length novel was published in 1940. Knight, an American author, created Lassie, a fictional character based on his admiration for a war dog named Lassie. In 1938, Knight’s short story “Lassie Come-Home” appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, and in 1940, he published a full- length novel. 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.Knight, an English-American author, created a fictional character based on the devotion of his war dog hero Lassie. After graduating from Cambridge Latin School in Massachusetts, Mr. He moved to the United States as a teenager.
About the AuthorĮric Knight was born in 1897 in Yorkshire, England, the countryside that was the background for Lassie Come-Home. Across hundreds of miles and against staggering odds, Lassie rises to every occasion as she races back to her home.
Driven by natural instinct and an extraordinary love, Lassie escapes from her new owners and makes a perilous journey back to Greenall Bridge to reunite with Joe. Joe thinks there’s no chance he will ever see his best friend again. Then Joe’s family falls on hard times, and his father is forced to sell their prized collie to the Duke of Rudling. The pair are inseparable, from walks home from school together every afternoon to epic explorations of the Yorkshire countryside. Twelve-year-old Joe Carraclough can’t imagine life without his family’s dog and beloved friend, Lassie. Martin, bold pen-and-ink illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse, and a stunning new faux-leather bound package. A special collector’s edition celebrating the iconic origin story of our favorite collie with an introduction by New York Times-bestselling author Ann M.
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