Night of the White Stag (Hardcover, Turtleback School & Library ed.)

It is the winter after the king's war, and Finder's father had never returned. On his way to the king's castle to seek food for his starving family, Finder enters a snow-covered forest. He loses his way and becomes frightened -- even more so when he meets an old man who is madly hunting for a great white stag. The man is blind, haunted by memories of the war. Though Finder doubts that the white stag exists, he guides the hunter in his search for this wondrous creature.