The Home Ranch

<p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>n </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>The Home Ranch</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> Ralph Moody turns again to Colorado the scene of those two delightful earlier books about his boyhood </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Little Britches</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Man of the Family</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>. This is an extension of Mr. Moody's recollections of his twelfth year and serially it fits within the framework of </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Man of the Family</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>-although there is no duplication whatever in the two stories.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>The Home Ranch</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> has all the warm and wonderful ingredients which made </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Little Britches</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Man of the Family</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> such universal favorites with readers of all ages. The book teems with exciting and poignant incidents and with memorable characters most of them good kindly generous people-though there is a </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>villain</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>. Mr. Moody is at his best in picturing a young boy's struggles with economic and other adversities and having lived through them himself he writes with such convincing honesty that the reader knows that this is the way things were. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Illustrated by Edward Shenton cover by Algot Stenbery.</span></p>