Thumping on Trees [Hardcover]
The stories in this book are true. They are told here, exactly as they are remembered, from two-thirds of a century ago, along the Sangamon River in Piatt County, Illnois. When the boy in the stories grew up, he became a father, then a grandfather. He told the stories first to his children, then, later, to his grandchildren.
"Henry liked walking in the woods because he saw raccoons and possums and skunks and foxes and frogs and snakes and crickets and beetles and butterflies and owls and hawks and crows and red-headed woodpeckers. Sometimes he found Indian arrowheads, pretty feathers, brightly colored leaves, and other nice things that he kept for a while--or forever."
These are the great stories found in the book, "Thumping on Trees", "The Crow That Played Hide and Seek", and "Going Barefoot" that are wonderful for the whole family to share!
• Hardcover: 43 pages
• Publisher: Woodlane Farm Books (February 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971231451
• ISBN-13: 978-0971231450
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
The Red Fox and Johnny Valentine's Blue-Speckled Hound [Hardcover]
A great story of a boy named Johnny Valentine with his unusual hound pup and a special friend named Tennessee. The hero of the story is a certain red fox, who creates his own personal territory along the river in Big Hollow. There he marauds among the local farms, creeping and drifting along under cover of darkness to steal chickens, avoid the boys of the neighborhood, acquire a mate, and outrace and outsmart the hounds that the local farmers sometimes set upon his trail. Surprising things happen to the fox and the hound, and to Johny Valentine and Tennessee. Yet they arise out of everyday episodes in the life of a farm country fox, and the lives of the hounds and people that pursue him and become familiar with his beauty and agility, his phantom-like wiliness, and his unpredictability. The author lived his own version of a child's adventurous life with foxes, while also soaking up the fox stories of older neighbors and relatives. The first 50 years of his adult life were spent as an academic biologist, trying to understand the behavior of animals and humans.
• Hardcover: 88 pages
• Publisher: Woodlane Farm Books (April 6, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971231427
• ISBN-13: 978-0971231429
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds