The Yearling is the 1938 novel about a boy who finds a fawn and raises it until he has run ins with farmers, hunters, and finally the deer is eating the family's own crops. The boy when has to take the deer into the wild and let it go.
Yes I know that book and even more the wonderful movie. That was one of my childhood favorite movies. What's better than a kid with a deer for a pet. It just breaks my heart even now when he has to part with his deer. Where did you run across this beautiful girl? I bet she has a fawn hiding away somewhere.