Connections: The pine of Akoya (Japanese folk tale) / retold by Rafe Martin --
The Christmas hunt (short story) / by Borden Deal --
Him (novel extract) from Bambi: a life in the woods / by Felix Salten --
Hunting yarns / compiled by Kemp P. Battle --
Mart Moody's bird dog (tall tale) / retold by Robert Bethke --
Davy Crockett meets his match (tall tale) --
Paul Bunyan's cornstalk (tall tale) / retold by Harold Courlander --
Momma's store (autobiography extract) from I know why the caged bird sings / by Maya Angelou --
Princess (short story) / by Nicholasa Mohr --
The saddest day the summer had (short story) / by Dick Perry --
Bloody murder (novel extract) from The original adventures of Hank the cowdog / by John R. Erickson --
Wilson Rawls (biographical sketch).