The Light in the Forest - Conrad Richter

I can only guess about how this book might have made it into my library, but how glad I am that it did. The inscription on the front fly leaf is that of the mother of a schoolmate of my mother, and my mother was over thirty years-old when this book was published. That raises the additional question of why would a grandmother have purchased and inscribed a children's book? Maybe she just liked the the story.

The time has come, however, for it to find a new, nourishing home with a fan, or a young boy, approaching third grade.


Conrad Richter's historical novel about a young boy kidnapped in an eighteenth century Indian raid, raised as an Indian family member and rudely returned to his birth family explores loyalties and conflicts, particularly those imposed by one culture that breeds hatred of another. The story is timeless and crosses into our twenty-first century culture wars very well.

This volume is the Third Printing of the First Edition of 1953. Although the binding is strong and the ages clean of marks (save for the inscription noted above) the careless insertion of a Birthday Card damaged pages 125 through 128 disrupting, but not obscuring) one sentence. There is minor shelf wear on the dust jacket.


All images are of the actual book. (Actually they are scans!)

My sons are all over twenty-one now. It is time for a new generation of young people with a yearning for learning to share True Son's experiences.



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