Uglified Ducky

Uglified Ducky

Author: Willy Claflin

Publisher: august house

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 087483953X

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Resets Hans Christian Andersen's tale, "The Ugly Duckling," in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly but cannot see his true beauty.


Rapunzel and the Seven Dwarfs

Rapunzel and the Seven Dwarfs

Author: Willy Claflin

Publisher: august house

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0874839149

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Combines and resets the classic tales of Rapunzel and Snow White in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a prince riding a white moose tries to rescue a long-haired beauty who has been poisoned by a witch.


Bully Goat Grim

Bully Goat Grim

Author:

Publisher: august house

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 0874839521

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A big bully, afflicted with Random Hostility Syndrome, terrorizes all of the forest animals until a clever young troll gets his goat.


The Uglified Ducky: A Maynard Moose Tale

The Uglified Ducky: A Maynard Moose Tale

Author: Willy Claflin

Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.

Published: 2017-12-13

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 1684440327

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Read Along or Enhanced eBook: You may think you know the classic story of the Ugly Duckling, but think again. In the capable hands of his alter ego Maynard Moose, renowned storyteller Willy Claflin takes us on a wacky journey where this Uglified Ducky, a hapless young moose, "blunders away" from his home, is mistaken for a baby duck, and endures endless humiliation as he tries to learn to waddle, quack, swim, and fly. Eventually, he finds his true "fambly," who helps him discover his own beauty. In his fractured “Moose” English, translated in the glossary at front, Maynard relays a surprisingly tender story that echoes the original tale's theme of the struggle to belong and discover your true self. The Uglified Ducky's quest is playfully but sympathetically interpreted in James Stimson's luminous, droll gouache illustrations.


The Perfect Wizard

The Perfect Wizard

Author: Jane Yolen

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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In honor of the 200th birthday of the beloved storyteller, to be observed on April 2, 2005, acclaimed author Yolen and noted illustrated Nolan explore Andersen's childhood, using quotes from Andersen's own stories to illustrate his life experiences. Full color.


Into the Wild

Into the Wild

Author: Jon Krakauer

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2009-09-22

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0307476863

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.


A Different Home

A Different Home

Author: Dr Kelly Degarmo

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0857008978

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A sensitive picture book to help ease the anxieties of foster children aged 4 to 10 entering placement. In A Different Home, Jessie tells us her story of being placed in foster care. At first she is worried and has lots of questions. The new home is not like her old home -- she has a different bedroom, different clothes, and there's different food for breakfast. She also misses her family. When Jim and Debbie, her foster parents, answer her questions she begins to feel better and see that this different home is kind of nice. Written in simple language and fully illustrated in color, this storybook is designed to help children in care, or moving into care, to settle in and answer some of the questions they may have. Accompanied by notes for adults on how to use the story with children, it will be a useful book for foster parents and caseworkers, as well as social workers, teachers and anyone else working with children in foster care.


The Book of Indian Crafts & Indian Lore

The Book of Indian Crafts & Indian Lore

Author: Julian Harris Salomon

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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Tells how various articles connected with Indian life were made and used. Some subjects included are Indian music, games, dances, and food. Grades 6-8.


Submarine Commander

Submarine Commander

Author: Paul R. Schratz

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0813143624

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A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as an enduring military and political analysis. In early 1943 the submarine USS Scorpion, with Paul R. Schratz as torpedo officer, slipped into the shallow waters east of Tokyo, laid a minefield, and made successful torpedo attacks on merchant shipping. Schratz participated in many more patrols in heavily mined Japanese waters as executive officer of the Sterlet and the Atule. At war's end he participated in the Japanese surrender, aided the release of American POWs, and had a key role in the disarming of enemy suicide submarines. He then took command of the revolutionary new Japanese submarine I-203 and returned it to Pearl Harbor. But this was far from the end of Schratz's submarine career. In 1949 he commissioned the ultramodern USS Pickerel, the most deadly submarine then afloat, and set a world's record in a 21-day, 5,200-mile submerged passage from Hong Kong to Honolulu. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the Pickerel was immediately sent to Korea to participate in secret intelligence operations only recently declassified and never before revealed in print. Schratz's broad military experience makes this a far from ordinary memoir.