I have a query about a children’s book from the 1950’s or early 1960’s. I read the book in 1965 or 1967.
The story is about a lonely city boy who is failing math. School ends for the summer and he goes to visit relatives on a farm. He gets a hound dog to raise, and he finds self esteem and joy in the process.
The story mostly revolves around this little hound dog and the boy’s experience with the dog on the farm.
It’s not “daddles” or “old yeller” or “the fox and the hound”, or any of the well-known hound stories. It was a chapter book with a solid color cover and some b & w line drawings. I thought the title was something about the little hound dog, but my previous searches haven’t borne that out.
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Is this possibly The Duck-Footed Hound by Jim Kjelgaard?
“The adventures of a boy and his web-footed ‘coon hound as they deal with school, a tom-boy named Melinda, and Old Joe, the craftiest raccoon in the Creeping Hills.”
It has some simple black and white illustrations and there is a school scene where the boy is asked a math problem that he can’t answer. It’s available on Project Gutenberg if you want to take a look.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41723/41723-h/41723-h.htm
No math failure in this one, but Henry Reed does get a beagle named Agony that is his sidekick (along with friend Midge) for the summers he spends with his aunt and uncle in small town New Jersey. Henry Reed, Inc. is the first in the series.