Where the Red Fern Grows is a heartwarming story about two dogs and a boy. In the story there is a beautiful friendship. In that friendship is Old Dan, Little Ann, and Billy Colman. There are many similarities in between the movie and book but, I will only tell you three. My similarities are that Billy chops down “the big tree”, he makes a bet with the Pritchard’s, and there is a red fern at the grave site. My first similarity is when Billy chops down “the big tree”. The reason he is chopping down the tree is because he made a promise with his dogs. The promise was that if his dogs treed the coon he would do the rest. So after Billy chopped down the tree Little Ann and Old Dan caught the coon. “The big tree” is also known as “the biggest