What Cloud Is My Brother In?

What Cloud Is My Brother In?
Author: Kim Vesey
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2023-02-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1664273107

Death is often perceived as an end point. Yet any family who has lost a child, either at birth or at some point in the child’s journey towards adulthood, will acknowledge it is a beginning. The beginning of a life-long grief journey, not just for the parents, but for other family members as well. While tears often come easily, words and actions, many times do not. How does one explain the death of a newborn, or the death of a child in elementary school or even high school, to their brothers and/or sisters? This story invites the grieving child/children, and the adults who love them, through a two-day grief camp experience for children. Three turtles meet at camp. They have each lost a brother. Snappy’s teenage brother Scooter died. Speedy’s newborn brother Bowser died. And Shelly’s young brother Scotty died too. Through the experience of numerous shared camp activities and discussions, the turtles become friends. They learn in the process, that while remembering may make them sad, it can help them to laugh and be happy, too. Speedy learned that even though there wasn’t time to create memories with his newborn brother, he can use his heart and his mind to imagine what life might be like, if his brother had lived. As camp comes to an end, the three friends realize they will always carry their brothers with them, in their heart and in their mind. This book includes many recommendations for techniques to honor and remember their brother. These activities allow the adult(s) and child/children to feel their grief through sharing openly about various grief topics, looking back at memories, and creating tangible remembrances. In time, through the sacred sharing of grief, they will begin to heal together.

I Am Your Peanut Butter Big Brother

I Am Your Peanut Butter Big Brother
Author:
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375856277

A child in an interracial family wonders what his yet-to-be-born sibling will look like.

The Book That Ate My Brother

The Book That Ate My Brother
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1496504437

Jack writes a letter to the Librarian because he needs help. His brother has been eaten by a book!

The Brothers Vonnegut

The Brothers Vonnegut
Author: Ginger Strand
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374711542

Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government; weather proved a decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions. Maybe weather will even be the "New Super Weapon." But when the army takes charge of his cloud-seeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the harmful uses of his inventions, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. In a fascinating cultural history, Ginger Strand chronicles the intersection of these brothers' lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold War looms, Bernard's struggle for integrity plays out in Kurt's evolving writing style. The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how science's ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists.

Native American Creation Myths

Native American Creation Myths
Author: Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780486437361

Every aboriginal nation has its gods, from whom the people receive all that they have, all that they practice, and all that they know. Traditional American Indian life revolved around communication with divinity, and these stories about the origin of the earth and its creatures embody every facet of Native American culture-customs, institutions, and art. Curtin, a celebrated anthropologist, roved California and Central America in the 1890s in pursuit of these tales. Recounted here as he heard them, they offer both authentic views of an ancient society and captivating examples of storytelling art.

I Have a Weird Brother who Digested a Fly

I Have a Weird Brother who Digested a Fly
Author: Joan Holub
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Illustrations and humorous rhyme describe what happens when a boy swallows a fly while presenting factual information about digestive systems. Color illustrations throughout.

The Mythology of Cherokee, Iroquois, Navajo, Siouan and Zuñi

The Mythology of Cherokee, Iroquois, Navajo, Siouan and Zuñi
Author: Lewis Spence
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 1580
Release: 2018-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 8027245494

This carefully edited historical collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This study presents the myths, beliefs and customs of the indigenous peoples in North America. This collection is comprised of many bodies of traditional narratives associated with religion from a mythographical perspective. Contents: The Myths of the North American Indians Myths of the Cherokee Myths of the Iroquois A Study of Siouan Cults Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths The Mountain Chant - A Navajo Ceremony

Family Nibbles - Volume 4

Family Nibbles - Volume 4
Author: Mark Jarvis
Publisher: Mark Jarvis
Total Pages: 237
Release:
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Family Nibbles - Volume 4, Stories of Our Jarvis Ancestors 1680-1800" is a compilation of stories from the blog site familynibbles.com. These stories include genealogy research on one line of Jarvis families in early Pennsylvania and Maryland. In fall of 1683, Elizabeth Jervis and her two children disembarked their ship at Chester, Pennsylvania. That's the moment that our Jarvis ancestors first arrived in America. This volume begins the story of our Jarvis family in America. We’ve been here for a long time. We'll follow the first three generations of our family as they experienced America from 1680 to 1800. These were common folk. They had successes and troubles. They had legal scrapes. Just when it seemed like they'd made it, some setback would knock them down. And when each generation suffered an economic hardship that made their lifestyle unsustainable, they chose the risk of moving west into frontier lands.