Page Count:  214

Author:  Fran Striker

Publisher:  Grosset & Dunlap

ASIN:  B000B6TTIC

Category:  Fiction

Genre:  Western

Dove's (Personal) Review:  Written sixty-five years ago, The Lone Ranger and Tonto still manages to engage children (young and old) everywhere. The Lone Ranger, Silver, Tonto, and Scout are four of the most enchanting Western characters ever created (even though two of them are horses, LOL). Fran Striker touches the hearts and imaginations of all of us with his Lone Ranger adventures.
     Being that I'm only thirty-five years old, I never had the oppotunity to read Striker's work when it was considered "new." However, I do remember sitting on the floor in the living room - directly in front of the TV - glued to the screen watching the old black n' white reruns of The Lone Ranger on Sunday mornings as a child.
     Until recently, I didn't even know The Lone Ranger stories were available in print. I had no idea the show I watched as a child was based on a series of books and/or a "radio show" (whichever came first, LOL). I was browsing around in a Used-Books book store about a month ago, when I came across this one. Of course, I just had to buy it! I finally had some time today to sit down and read it. Once I started it, I couldn't stop.
     In 1940, when this book first hit the stands, the Lone Ranger stories were primarily geared towards boys. Thankfully, we're less sexist now, so the target audience [today] would be "Young Adult," for boys and girls alike. If you ever feel the need to unleash the "kid" in you, hunt down a copy of any of Striker's Lone Ranger books. You'll find that the characters are just as endearing now as they were when you were little!
     "Hi-Yo Silver! Awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"
     TWO-THUMBS-UP!!!