Belle Prater's Boy Resources

You can read all about Ruth White and her many books for kids at her publisher's website. It looks like she has a particular fondness for writing books set in her home state of Virginia.

Pick up your own copy of Belle Prater's Boy, and while you're at it, you can pick up the next book and learn what happens to Gypsy, Woodrow, and of course… Aunt Belle.

In an interview before Belle Prater's Boy came out, Ruth White likened the relationship between Gypsy and Woodrow in the book as "the city mouse and the country mouse." How cute is that?

According to Ruth White, she started out writing Belle Prater's Boy as a comedy. Obviously it went in an entirely different direction…

Want to get a rough overview of Belle Prater's Boy before you hunker down and read it? Check out this book trailer.

If you have an extra three hours on your hands, you can listen to Belle Prater's Boy as an audiobook.

Doesn't Ruth White look like she could be Woodrow and Gypsy's sweet Granny?

The original cover for Belle Prater's Boy is pretty dramatic, and gives you a sense of what Gypsy and Woodrow would look like. Look at all that hair.

Gypsy and Woodrow's tree house perch looks quite precarious in an updated cover for Belle Prater's Boy.

If the cover of The Search for Belle Prater is any indication, it looks like Gypsy and Woodrow will definitely be going into the woods to find his mother… perhaps in a cabin?