These books are some of my all-time favorites. ( )

I contemplated for about 15 seconds if this book deserved four stars. Yep, that long!

"Gray Dawn" is one of the better, nay, best of the Sunnybank collie stories, including the original "Lad: A Dog". I realized at one point that I was reading quickly, too quickly, in my eagerness to find out how each chapter would end. That, to me, is an indication of a book's quality and worth: for the time it took me to read "Gray Dawn", I was IN the story, with the collies and the Terhunes. I am sorry that the last page finally appeared, and I had to leave Sunnybank.

A worthy read for not just dog lovers, but for any lover of a good story. Highly recommended.

(I just upped this book and "Lad: A Dog" an extra 1/2 star, well deserved!) ( )

276. Gray Dawn, by Albert Payson Terhune (read 17 Aug 1946) My comment when I finished this book on 17 Aug 1946 was "Too kiddish." I was 17, so I should have read it earlier. ( )