Where the Re Fern Grows is an inspirational 1961 family adventure novel by American author Wilson Rawls about a boy who acquires and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs. It was made into a popular 1974 film starring Stewart Petersen, James Whitmore and Beverly Garland. The film was remade in 2003 and starred Joseph Ashton, Dabney Coleman, Ned Beatty and Dave Matthews.