During a harsh winter, his grandfather falls ill and after an audit of the potato farm, the tax collector determines that he owes $500 in unpaid taxes. Ten-year-old Willy lives in Jackson, Wyoming in the 1880s on a potato farm with his grandfather and his dog Searchlight. Stone Fox was originally intended as a screenplay but became a book at the suggestion of a producer. The book was inspired by a Rocky Mountain legend that Gardiner heard when he visited Idaho. It is written in simple prose and is set at an indeterminate time in the American Old West. The book centers on a boy named Willy who enters a dog sled race in order to win $500 to pay back the taxes on his grandfather's farm. BR4), and was included in 100 Best Books for Children by Anita Silvey. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1980 (Nov. It sold three million copies and was turned into a television movie starring Buddy Ebsen, Joey Cramer, and Gordon Tootoosis and directed by Harvey Hart in 1987. Stone Fox was acclaimed and very popular when it was published in 1980. It is the first and best known of Gardiner's books. Stone Fox is a children's novella by John Reynolds Gardiner.
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