Letters from Moose Rump

Letters from Moose Rump
Author: Barbara Morgan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496941039

Barbara Morgan is a talented writer who has an excellent sense of humor. She has the ability to write to the interest of both children and adults. These talents are brought out in this compilation of stories cast in letter format about critters and things found at Moose Rump Ranch. In these story letters, Barbara demonstrates the ability to give personality and humorous behavior patterns to critters and things in fictional form. These letter-stories were tested on Barbaras sixteen grandchildren and a host of neighbors and friends. To her delight, to a great extent, the story-letters were found of interest to adults, especially parents. These story-letters are presented with cartoon characters that will pique the interest of readers and make them eager to turn the pages and read about the characters that are included. Beth Guske

Letters from Alaska

Letters from Alaska
Author: Richard Bartoo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2013-08-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1483674460

Letters from Alaska Someone has commented that the Bartoo family is made of people who are highly literate, adventurous, and in love with the outdoors and animals. From the articles in this collection, I think any reader will agree with that. In their 30 to 40 years of living in Alaska, my mom and dad wrote many things to describe what their life was like. Some were letters written to family and friends, some were trapping logs, some were just personal accounts of activities on hunting trips and other travels, often written strictly for their own enjoyment. My mother and dad were over 50 when they moved to Alaska, and started a new life there. From my mothers letters over the years, she tells all about their life in Alaska in the 20th century. She makes the stories of their experiences come alive: hunting for moose, goats, or caribou; then fishing for salmon and halibut, and how they lost the Salmon Derby; and their fur trapping of mink, martin, etc. The perennial question folks ask, Whats it like to live in Alaska? Mom answers from her viewpoint, both in showing details of daily routines of growing flowers while weeding and feeding mosquitoes, as well as how to prepare for spending weeks or months at a time in the bush on their annual trapping trip.

Maine Metaphor: The Green and Blue House

Maine Metaphor: The Green and Blue House
Author: S. Dorman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2014-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1498201040

How to live in rural Maine? How--in the 1980s, when descendants of Maine's settlers wonder about our coming out of the Rust Belt in search of work, in search of a life? They were not bitter about our coming here, where jobs were already scarce--they were incredulous. Why did we come? Sometimes I answered, "God." God brought us, the formerly middle-class inept, to live among these most hardy and canny of make-do people. God brought us to experience life in Maine, where my spouse sometimes worked turning and trimming four thousand boards a night, waking to drive one hundred miles round-trip to finish our undergraduate educations with the aid of loans and grants. So I studied the place where we came to live. And I forgot where we came from. Rural Maine was ragged, rugged, hardscrabble, and wild--but full of the most visible, vital, natural creation. I've tried to express that aspect of Maine life in The Green and Blue House. And there is the metaphor, also.

The Alaska Almanac

The Alaska Almanac
Author: Nancy Gates
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0882409980

Those looking for facts about Alaska turn to Alaska's best known and trusted fact book, The Alaska Alamanc. This affordable, best‐selling guide is filled with accurate, timely facts on the geography, history, economy, employment, recreation, climate, and peoples of this large and diverse state.

This Life Is in Your Hands

This Life Is in Your Hands
Author: Melissa Coleman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2011-04-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062087355

“Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn’t just tell the story of her family’s brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history.” —Tom Perrotta In a work of power and beauty reminiscent of Tobias Wolff, Jeannette Walls, and Dave Eggers, Melissa Coleman delivers a luminous, evocative childhood memoir exploring the hope and struggle behind her family's search for a sustainable lifestyle. With echoes of The Liars’ Club and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Coleman’s searing chronicle tells the true story of her upbringing on communes and sustainable farms along the rugged Maine coastline in the 1970’s, embedded within a moving, personal quest for truth that her experiences produced.

The Day the Crayons Quit

The Day the Crayons Quit
Author: Drew Daywalt
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2013-06-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 110162812X

The hilarious, colorful #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon that every kid wants! Gift a copy to someone you love today. Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Blue crayon needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. Black crayon wants to be used for more than just outlining. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best? With giggle-inducing text from Drew Daywalt and bold and bright illustrations from Oliver Jeffers, The Day the Crayons Quit is the perfect gift for new parents, baby showers, back-to-school, or any time of year! Perfect for fans of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka and Lane Smith. Praise for The Day the Crayons Quit: Amazon’s 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2013 Goodreads’ 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year Winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award * “Hilarious . . . Move over, Click, Clack, Moo; we’ve got a new contender for the most successful picture-book strike.” –BCCB, starred review “Jeffers . . . elevates crayon drawing to remarkable heights.” –Booklist “Fresh and funny.” –The Wall Street Journal "This book will have children asking to have it read again and again.” –Library Media Connection * “This colorful title should make for an uproarious storytime.” –School Library Journal, starred review * “These memorable personalities will leave readers glancing apprehensively at their own crayon boxes.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review “Utterly original.” –San Francisco Chronicle