Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures
Never Cry

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 1996-05-15

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1466809477

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America's best-selling outdoor humorist for adults has a secret following: middle-grade and young-adult readers. Never Cry "Arp!" is a lively collection of twelve stories about young Pat's misadventures in the Great American Wilderness. All the McManus regulars are here: Crazy Eddie Muldoon, the best friend everybody wishes they had (and everybody's mother wishes they didn't); Rancid Crabtree, the good-hearted, if gamey, woodsman; Pat's skunk dog, Strange, who lives up to his name; and Pat's pal, Retch Sweeney, who does, too. This is a book for kids who love to start fishing at 4am (at least they say they do) or for those who prefer to experience the mighty outdoors in the safety of their homes. "Everybody should read Patrick McManus," said the New York Times. Now, everybody can.

Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures
Never Cry

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1996-05-15

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0805046623

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America's bestselling outdoor humorist for adults presents a collection of 12 stories for middle-grader and junior-high readers about young Pat's misadventures in the Great American Wilderness. City sophisticates, stay away. This is a book for kids who love to start fishing at 4 a.m. (at least they say they do), or those whose best shot was "about 600 feet" (no need to say they missed).

Kerplunk!
Kerplunk!

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0743280504

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Presents a collection of curmudgeonly tales on Pacific Northwest country living as enjoyed by both outdoorsmen and armchair enthusiasts, in a volume that explores the lighter side of such topics as gun safes, fly tying, and bird dog flatulence.

Gilgamesh to Gierach
Gilgamesh to Gierach

Author: James W. White

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-08-02

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13:

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Fish have figured profoundly in both human history and imagination for millennia. They are both gifts of the sea, drawing civilizations to the water, and terrors of the deep, holding revelations of the unconscious and the unknown. Today, fly fishing attracts millions looking to escape modern life and reconnect with some primal, meditative instinct to partake in nature’s offerings. Gilgamesh to Gierach is a collection of three hundred fishing, water, and fish tales spanning four millennia and numerous genres. More than a historical overview, White has distilled this immense topic into threads that flow through time, from legends and literature to nursery rhymes, poems, and humorous fish tales. Anglers will discover fly fishing’s ancient roots and spiritual seekers the fish’s religious and existential implications. Among the included voices are Homer, St. John, Ovid, Brendan the Navigator, Dame Juliana Berners, Shakespeare, Walton, Melville, Yeats, Thoreau, Hemingway, Rodrick Haig-Brown, and Norman Maclean. Whether told in full or, more often, condensed, these stories will leave the reader with a strong sense of the fish’s significance to many of the world’s greatest thinkers. Brimming with jokes, histories, simple folk tales, and great tragedies, this impressive work offers something for everyone.

The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1620877554

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The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories is a hilarious addition to Patrick F. McManus’s existing work in humor. The author weighs in on his childhood, everyday life, and outdoor tales with his typical exaggerated commentary that will elicit a belly laugh from all types of readers. Read about the antics of Patrick’s friends Rancid Crabtree and Retch Sweeney in such stories as “Shaping Up for the Hunt” and “Bear Hunters.” McManus plays off the recent obsession with hoarders in his surprising story “The Lady Who Kept Things.” In the titular story, meet Patrick’s horse, Huckleberry, and enjoy the experience of all the problems that come along with owning your own horse—or keeping him in the garage. Other great stories include: “Catch-And-Eaters,” about the importance of a forked stick when fishing “$7000 TV Historical Extravaganza,” a look at one director’s loose interpretation of historical accuracy and political correctness “A Lake Too Far,” concerning the woes of Patrick and his wife, Bun, on a fateful birding trip in Australia “Chicken Chronicles,” which involves Patrick’s memory of wandering around naked in the chicken yard when guests came to call So pull up a chair, sit back, and enjoy laughing to the hilarious adventures of Patrick F. McManus in The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories.

The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw
The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 1990-05-15

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1466809493

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America’s “most gifted outdoor humorist” (Detroit Free Press) regales readers with this collection of gut-busting, man vs. nature tales originally published in such magazines as Field & Stream and Outdoor Living. Patrick F. McManus’s hilarious and comic stories of camping and other nature-oriented activities reach ridiculous proportions in The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw. From teaching his stepfather the methods of madness behind farm work through his best friend’s grandmother’s fear of bears, McManus reveals that human behavior is even wilder than the wilderness.

Literature & the Learner
Literature & the Learner

Author: Frances S. Goforth

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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As a genre text, not an anthology, this text teaches students about literature forms and discusses ways of using literature in the classroom. It is used to give students the background they need to evaluate, select, and use children's literature in their own teaching. A database of current literature is provided with the text and will be updated annually.

Kid Camping from Aaaaiii! to Zip
Kid Camping from Aaaaiii! to Zip

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: William Morrow & Company

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9780688419103

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Humorous and practical advice on various aspects of camping, presented alphabetically.

The Deer on a Bicycle
The Deer on a Bicycle

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Humorist Patrick McManus explains several facets of writing humor and provides twelve stories with commentary on each, as well as a list of humor writers he admires.