I LOVE Stickeen. 
I want to give him so many pets. 
Reading this felt like I was along for the adventure. 

Here are some of my favorite quotes: 

"Though capable of great idleness, he never failed to be ready for all sorts of adventures and excursions."

"His equanimity was so steady it seemed due to want of feeling; ordinary storms were pleasures to him, and as for mere rain, he flourished in it like a vegetable."

"many of Nature’s finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways"

"The man who said, “The harder the toil, the sweeter the rest,” never was profoundly tired"

"...he will not be forgotten. To me Stickeen is immortal."