The Wild Adventures of Running Deer is brought to you by an adventurous, adolescent boy named Running Deer and his friends Skeeter, Weasel, Beaver, and Buzzard. It's about a clique of boys who play in the woods and along a river with frogs and turtles, build forts and rafts, and get into all kinds of mischief. Running Deer is a curious, young naturalist, coming-of-age in a time and place gone by. He was fortunate to be raised in a loving home surrounded by nature and seldom restrained by watchful eyes, unreasonable rules and fickle warnings, nor dissuaded from his interests and activities. By the time Running Deer reached six years, he had nurtured several species of wild, orphaned animals, explored the green environment around him, and gained an understanding about the natural world. By the time he was eight, he befriended several kindred boys and together they pursued many wild escapades. The book is a testament to a simpler time, when children spent their leisure time in the great outdoors, before all our present-day technologies, conveniences and comforts enticed people to stay inside and at home. The stories take place in the mid-1950s and '60s; before most of the wild woods where young Running Deer played as a child were bulldozed, paved, and developed into ribbons of roads and suburban sprawl. These are true tales, real life adventures, more exciting than fiction, remembered for a lifetime and recorded for posterity. They're nostalgic, humorous, thought-provoking, written in the first person and narrated in a New Jersey dialect. The book ends with lessons about nature and how to live with and love nature and help heal the Earth. It is intended to entertain its readers with the wild antics of adventurous children and leave us with a greater appreciation for Mother Earth and all her creations, and for a simpler life and time gone by.