Doug Koktavy:The Legacy of Beezer and Boomer: Lessons on Living and Dying from My Canine Brothers
- First edition 2010, ISBN: 9780982126004
Paperback, Hardcover
Harpercollins Childrens Books, 03/01/93 12:00 AM. Hardcover. Very Good. 0060209860 Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Carey ( The Devil and Mother Crump ) sets her jaunty folktale… More...
Harpercollins Childrens Books, 03/01/93 12:00 AM. Hardcover. Very Good. 0060209860 Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Carey ( The Devil and Mother Crump ) sets her jaunty folktale in a Polish village, where Tsugele, with help from her trusty broom, keeps house for her parents. Deciding it is time for their daughter to marry, they employ a matchmaker, who produces two totally unsuitable suitors. Tsugele concludes she is better off by herself ("find me a man as reliable as my broom and I will marry him"), and leaves home--beloved broom in hand--to become a housekeeper. Before long the girl finds an unexpected soul mate, as Carey resolves this quaint yet strongly feminist story with a whimsical twist. Zimmer ( The Moonbow of Mr. B. Bones ; The Cow Is Mooing Anyhow ) demonstrates his artistic versatility with an intriguing combination of woodblock illustrations and borders and full-toned, playful folk-art drawings. The book's jacket--neon orange woodblock animals poised against a luminous blue background--is particularly captivating. Ages 5-8. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal Kindergarten-Grade 4-- Quick-witted, capable Tsugele frustrates her parents and the matchmaker's efforts to find her a husband. Only when she finds a man who is as helpful and reliable as her broom will she marry, she declares with finality. Predictably, the suitors are impossible dolts. When Tsugele dreams that her broom turns into a man, it foreshadows events. Her broom disappears simultaneously with the appearance of a stranger with wiry, straw-colored hair. The wise girl decides, "If eggs become chickens, and peach stones become trees, why couldn't a broom, God willing, become a man?" So they marry, of course. Zimmer's illustrations, easily recognizable to fans of Bony Legs (Macmillan, 1983), are framed by interesting block-print borders that enhance the folkloric flavor of this original tale. The sharp-featured characters are depicted with cartoonlike humor. The colors are a bit garish. The text is amusing, especially when the girl's disbelieving parents react to her intractable refusal to marry and when she devises tests for the dim bulbs who come courting. However, readers will find that this broom suffers in comparison to The Widow's Broom (Houghton, 1992), which is quickened artfully in the hands of Chris Van Allsburg. And Tsugele herself lacks the spirit of that snappy feminist heroine, The Squire's Bride (Atheneum, 1975; o.p.) by Marcia Sewall. Therefore, when the couple marry, it is not as satisfying as it's meant to be. An additional selection. --Kate McClelland, Perrot Memorial Library, Greenwich, CT Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc., Harpercollins Childrens Books, 03/01/93 12:00 AM, 3, ROB, 1981. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:9012036321, ROB, 1981, 0, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1988. Book. Good Minus. Large Hardcover. Bottom of back dust jacket is water stained & stuck to cover. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked. From From Publishers Weekly: "Brett, author/illustrator of such favorites as Annie and the Wild Animals , has turned to prehistoric territory for her newest book. Kip the cave boy is on his way home with only a bag of Woollystet upper case, in book Rhino bones and his wits to protect him from the dangerous beasts of Ice Age Europe. At his first rest-stop a Paleowolf appears, to beg for food. Kip gives the wolf nothing and teases him, but each time Kip stops to eat, one of the wolf's keen senseshearing, smell, eyesightsaves him from an approaching animal, including the much-feared Saber-Toothed Cat. When both are safe but hungry, Kip makes a promise to Wolf: he will supply food, if Wolf will supply protectionand Wolf wags his tail to become the first dog. With folksy cadences and repetitions, this seems written to be read aloud. The illustrations are bright, with vivid details that richly evoke the possible landscapes of a prehistoric era; this is an appealing story of the way things might have been." Recommended for ages 4-8.., Harcourt Childrens Books, 1988, 2.5, UsedAcceptable. The item is very worn but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing (age related spots and browning). May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials., 0, GB: British Museum Press, 1994. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Bottom corner slightly dog-eared.. 1st Edition. Paperback. VG+., British Museum Press, 1994, 3, St. Martins Press, 2000. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own. For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage. In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, "what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory., St. Martins Press, 2000, 5, New York: Penguin Books, 2004 546 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. "No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War. In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today. The Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley said Barry's last book can change the way we think.The Great Influenza may also change the way we see the world. / John M. Barry is the author of four previous works of history, including the highly acclaimed Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. He is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier universities." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Penguin Books, 2004, 5, 2010 Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards, 1st Place, "Life Stories"2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 1st Place, "Memoirs," Finalist, "Pets"2010 National Indie Excellence Awards, 1st Place, "Animals/Pets"2010 Nautilus Silver Award, "Grieving/Death & Dying"2010 Colorado Independent Publishers Association, 1st Place, "Self Help Books"2010 Living Now Book Awards, Silver Award, "Pets"2010 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, Honorable Mention, "Self-Help/Spiritual"2010 USA Book News National Best Book Awards, Finalist, "Animals/Pets: Health," "Best New Non-Fiction," and "Self-Help: General" An inspirational and constructive memoir about dealing with the painful emotions we go through as we care for and say goodbye to our terminally ill or aging pets. The Legacy of Beezer and Boomer describes Doug Koktavy's own journey through anticipatory grief when his beloved dogs were dying. During this time, he was engulfed with fear, guilt and hopelessness, but found strength and powerful solutions when he began to listen to his wise dogs. The award-winning book illustrates how we can learn to stay present, cope with emotions, and ultimately find peace in the most difficult situations.Author Doug Koktavy is on the board of directors of Bone Cancer Dogs, Inc., and is a volunteer with Safe Harbor Labrador Retriever Rescue. He is a moderator of the K9 Kidney Diet Yahoo Group and a member of the Bone Cancer Dogs Yahoo Group. He lives in Denver, Colorado., B Brothers Press; Illustrated edition (June 21, 2010), 0<
