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For Children
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The 44 paintings that illustrate "Carousel
Odyssey" are being made available as fine art prints and
may be purchased in two sizes, each limited to 30 prints. They
will be reproduced on high quality watercolor paper suitable for
matting and framing. |
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The
Industrial Revolution is well underway, replacing hand tools with
machine and power tools, and horses with motorized transport.
Charles Looff, a German immigrant, is the first to hand carve and
install a carousel at Coney Island, its opening timed for the
celebration of the American Centennial in
1876.
This story provides a fascinating look at the inception of
the carousel industry and takes the reader on an imaginary
century-long journey made by two wooden carousel steeds. The text is
richly enhanced throughout with vibrant, full-color
images. |
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The Carousel
Odyssey |
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Newly released in 2007!!
limited copies
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This is a
book about academic life, about confrontation and conflict in
the workplace, and about being a woman in a middle management
position in those far-off days when Affirmative Action had just
been written into law and the women's movement was just getting
underway. |
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A Horse on her Door Step |
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A loving tribute to the
memory of two fine Clydesdales and their partnership with the
author’s father on the farming frontier of the Palouse country in
eastern Washington state, this book is both a horse story and a tale
of a vanished way of life. The author’s father’s determination to
farm with horses when everybody else turned to tractors makes him an
anachronism. A sensitive and moving story that anyone who
appreciates farms and animals will enjoy. |
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Plodding Princes of the Palouse |
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Though
there is a glimpse of a West that was wild, men who were outlaws and
marshals who brought them to justice, Fritz
and
the Powder Keg Pacer tells
a true story about the West and the Cowboy that is very different
from the stereotyped
images of the American West that pervade popular culture.
This is a story about an orphaned black bear cub, an outcast horse
barred from the race track, and a man who befriends them. Set in
Rosalia, Washington in a day when “talking machines” and telephones,
automobiles and electricity were new phenomena and life moved at a
more leisurely
pace. |
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Fritz and the Powder Keg
Pacer |
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A folk
tale rooted in antiquity, this story about a horse seeking justice
for mistreatment at the hands of its master faded and disappeared
entirely in the post-Victorian era of children’s readers. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, America’s poet laureate during the post Civil
War era, gave it a shot of literary adrenaline in a poetic version
entitled “The
Sicilian’s Tale.” The
book is divided into three parts: The folk tale, illustrated in full
color; a narrative account of the evolution of the story from 2000
B.C. in China to the 1500s in Europe, and a treatise on the problem
of surplus animals in contemporary
society. |
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The Bell of Atri |
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This
is a coming-of-age story that takes place in Rosalia, Washington, in
the first decade of the 20th century. The reader meets the adults in
Carroll Coe’s world and learns of their roots in the pioneer
experience during territorial days. His father earns the family’s
living as a cowboy.
As
the age of the automobile dawns, the reader is catapulted into the
roaring twenties and college life, the stock market crash in 1929,
and the Depression that followed. The closing chapters look at Coe’s
life as a school teacher and a rodeo competitor, riding “John
Dillinger” to a national championship in 1938. |
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A Cowboy in the
Classroom |
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This is
a story of four disparate animals who come together, form a society
and are tested by a crisis. The author knew the Four
Friends
quite
well — a horse, a dog, a cat, and a rooster — and the book’s 50
pen/ink drawings and the cover illustration in full color are the
result of her observations. Recommended reading for intermediate
grades through high school and for adults who delight in
animals. |
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Four
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