Author: Mary Page Greene
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1685626815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
At the peak of middle age, when you have many responsibilities and suddenly a distant threat arrives close to home and you feel called to help, how do you justify leaving your young family and sacrificing your thriving career for the greater good? How do you stay the course at every unexpected turn along the way? How do you keep a positive attitude during the devastation of war and simultaneously give encouragement with humor to your family left behind? After the mission is accomplished and many friends and comrades are lost, how do you successfully return to the life you left? When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, Jim Greene was living in Washington D.C. and intimately aware of Hitler’s threat to democracy. He was 42 years old, married with three young children and developing his advertising agency from D.C. to Boston. How could he contribute to the war effort while managing his current responsibilities?
Daddy Bear Goes to War
Author: Mary Page Greene
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1685626815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
At the peak of middle age, when you have many responsibilities and suddenly a distant threat arrives close to home and you feel called to help, how do you justify leaving your young family and sacrificing your thriving career for the greater good? How do you stay the course at every unexpected turn along the way? How do you keep a positive attitude during the devastation of war and simultaneously give encouragement with humor to your family left behind? After the mission is accomplished and many friends and comrades are lost, how do you successfully return to the life you left? When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, Jim Greene was living in Washington D.C. and intimately aware of Hitler’s threat to democracy. He was 42 years old, married with three young children and developing his advertising agency from D.C. to Boston. How could he contribute to the war effort while managing his current responsibilities?
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1685626815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
At the peak of middle age, when you have many responsibilities and suddenly a distant threat arrives close to home and you feel called to help, how do you justify leaving your young family and sacrificing your thriving career for the greater good? How do you stay the course at every unexpected turn along the way? How do you keep a positive attitude during the devastation of war and simultaneously give encouragement with humor to your family left behind? After the mission is accomplished and many friends and comrades are lost, how do you successfully return to the life you left? When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, Jim Greene was living in Washington D.C. and intimately aware of Hitler’s threat to democracy. He was 42 years old, married with three young children and developing his advertising agency from D.C. to Boston. How could he contribute to the war effort while managing his current responsibilities?
A Bear in War
Author: Stephanie Innes
Publisher: Pajama Press Inc.
ISBN: 1927485126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
During World War One, a young girl slips her teddy bear into a care package for her father, a medic posted to the trenches of France. Although her father dies in the battle of Passchendaele, his belongings are shipped back to his family, along with the toy bear, which today sits in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. In 1915, 37-year-old Lawrence Browning Rogers enlisted in the Fifth Canadian Mounted Rifles, leaving behind his wife, two children, and their farm in East Farnham, Quebec. Over the next two and a half years, the family exchanged hundreds of letters, and daughter Aileen sent her beloved Teddy overseas to keep her father safe. Teddy returned home safely, but Lieutenant Rogers did not. He was killed in the battle of Passchendaele. Eighty-five years later, Lawrence's granddaughter found Teddy, the letters, and other war memorabilia packed away in a briefcase. And she discovered a moving story of one family's love and sacrifice - a story shared by the families of so many soldiers who have lost their lives in the defense of their country. Accompanied by family photographs and Brian Deines' poignant art, A Bear in War is more than one family's testament to a brave soldier. It is a gentle introduction to war, to Remembrance Day, and to the honor of those who have served their countries.
Publisher: Pajama Press Inc.
ISBN: 1927485126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
During World War One, a young girl slips her teddy bear into a care package for her father, a medic posted to the trenches of France. Although her father dies in the battle of Passchendaele, his belongings are shipped back to his family, along with the toy bear, which today sits in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. In 1915, 37-year-old Lawrence Browning Rogers enlisted in the Fifth Canadian Mounted Rifles, leaving behind his wife, two children, and their farm in East Farnham, Quebec. Over the next two and a half years, the family exchanged hundreds of letters, and daughter Aileen sent her beloved Teddy overseas to keep her father safe. Teddy returned home safely, but Lieutenant Rogers did not. He was killed in the battle of Passchendaele. Eighty-five years later, Lawrence's granddaughter found Teddy, the letters, and other war memorabilia packed away in a briefcase. And she discovered a moving story of one family's love and sacrifice - a story shared by the families of so many soldiers who have lost their lives in the defense of their country. Accompanied by family photographs and Brian Deines' poignant art, A Bear in War is more than one family's testament to a brave soldier. It is a gentle introduction to war, to Remembrance Day, and to the honor of those who have served their countries.
Wojtek
Author: Alan Pollock Alan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910646410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910646410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
View more details of this book at www.walkerbooks.com.au
Daddy Please Don't Go
Author: Bear James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781631859854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Daddy Please Don't Go is about a boy who has to face this father leaving for war. Why is his father leaving? Why can't he stay? These questions are hard for a child to understand, and this book will help your own child to experience these changes. A child you doesn't understand war must learn to let his father go.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781631859854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Daddy Please Don't Go is about a boy who has to face this father leaving for war. Why is his father leaving? Why can't he stay? These questions are hard for a child to understand, and this book will help your own child to experience these changes. A child you doesn't understand war must learn to let his father go.
Winnie
Author: Sally M. Walker
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805097155
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The true story of the real bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805097155
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The true story of the real bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
The Bear
Author: Andrew Krivak
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey home In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen. A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature’s dominion. Andrew Krivak is the author of two previous novels: The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired much of the landscape in The Bear.
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey home In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen. A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature’s dominion. Andrew Krivak is the author of two previous novels: The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired much of the landscape in The Bear.
The Big Bang
Author: Jed Feuer
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780573627545
Category : Auditions
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
"long on shtick and historical hilarity, it is staged as a backers' audition for an 83.5 million dollar twelve hour stage history of the world from creation to the present. Eighteen side splitting numbers portraying Adam and Eve, Attila the Hun, the building of the pyramids, Julius Caesar and Columbus, among others, give potential investors a taste of the impending extravaganza. In the process, the opulent Park Avenue apartment "borrowed" for the occasion is trashed as the two snatch its furnishings to create makeshift costumes while singing and clowning their way through inventive recreations of the past, stopping occasionally for a little supplicating show biz patter"--Publisher.
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780573627545
Category : Auditions
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
"long on shtick and historical hilarity, it is staged as a backers' audition for an 83.5 million dollar twelve hour stage history of the world from creation to the present. Eighteen side splitting numbers portraying Adam and Eve, Attila the Hun, the building of the pyramids, Julius Caesar and Columbus, among others, give potential investors a taste of the impending extravaganza. In the process, the opulent Park Avenue apartment "borrowed" for the occasion is trashed as the two snatch its furnishings to create makeshift costumes while singing and clowning their way through inventive recreations of the past, stopping occasionally for a little supplicating show biz patter"--Publisher.
Daddy Soldier Bear
Author: Meg Ripley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781088777008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Between caring for his shifter war brothers at the VA, being a single dad, and his duties with the elite Special Ops Shifter Force, Dr. Drake Sheridan has his hands full. Being called away to covertly diffuse the most complex issues amongst clans-ones that even the shifter conclave can't handle-can be tough, but this Special Forces Medical Sergeant is always up for the challenge. When he gets a call about an Alpha who's supposedly been brainwashed by her three mates, Drake knows he has to step in. Nikki's triad of mates treats her like a queen-or so she thinks. She doesn't see a problem in her Eureka, California bear clan, but her sister won't stop telling her otherwise. When a newcomer named Drake shows up in town looking for a clan to join, Nikki knows he's a good fit, but her inner bear goes berserk whenever he's around. She's already found her mates, so what's going on with her bear? As soon as he encounters Nikki, Drake's bear craves to claim her as his. But his mate died in childbirth years ago; he still beats himself up for not being able to save her and never thought he'd love again. But the way his bear yearns for Nikki now has him thinking otherwise. No matter what his bear wants, he's in Eureka on a mission and won't give up until he gets to the bottom of the mystery behind Nikki's devious mates. He can't let his heart get involved. Or can he? Steamy shifter scenes inside! Readers 18+.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781088777008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Between caring for his shifter war brothers at the VA, being a single dad, and his duties with the elite Special Ops Shifter Force, Dr. Drake Sheridan has his hands full. Being called away to covertly diffuse the most complex issues amongst clans-ones that even the shifter conclave can't handle-can be tough, but this Special Forces Medical Sergeant is always up for the challenge. When he gets a call about an Alpha who's supposedly been brainwashed by her three mates, Drake knows he has to step in. Nikki's triad of mates treats her like a queen-or so she thinks. She doesn't see a problem in her Eureka, California bear clan, but her sister won't stop telling her otherwise. When a newcomer named Drake shows up in town looking for a clan to join, Nikki knows he's a good fit, but her inner bear goes berserk whenever he's around. She's already found her mates, so what's going on with her bear? As soon as he encounters Nikki, Drake's bear craves to claim her as his. But his mate died in childbirth years ago; he still beats himself up for not being able to save her and never thought he'd love again. But the way his bear yearns for Nikki now has him thinking otherwise. No matter what his bear wants, he's in Eureka on a mission and won't give up until he gets to the bottom of the mystery behind Nikki's devious mates. He can't let his heart get involved. Or can he? Steamy shifter scenes inside! Readers 18+.
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Author: Michael Rosen
Publisher: Walker Books Limited
ISBN: 9781406323924
Category : Bear hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
We're going on a bear hunt. Through the long wavy grass, the thick oozy mud and the swirling, whirling snowstorm - will we find a bear today?
Publisher: Walker Books Limited
ISBN: 9781406323924
Category : Bear hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
We're going on a bear hunt. Through the long wavy grass, the thick oozy mud and the swirling, whirling snowstorm - will we find a bear today?
"Daddy's Gone to War"
Author: William M. Tuttle Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019987882X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but from Pearl Harbor on, "the war"--with its blackouts, air raids, and government rationing--became a dramatic presence in all of their lives. Thirty million Americans relocated, 3,700,000 homemakers entered the labor force, sparking a national debate over working mothers and latchkey children, and millions of enlisted fathers and older brothers suddenly disappeared overseas or to far-off army bases. By the end of the war, 180,000 American children had lost their fathers. In "Daddy's Gone to War", William M. Tuttle, Jr., offers a fascinating and often poignant exploration of wartime America, and one of generation's odyssey from childhood to middle age. The voices of the home front children are vividly present in excerpts from the 2,500 letters Tuttle solicited from men and women across the country who are now in their fifties and sixties. From scrap-collection drives and Saturday matinees to the atomic bomb and V-J Day, here is the Second World War through the eyes of America's children. Women relive the frustration of always having to play nurses in neighborhood war games, and men remember being both afraid and eager to grow up and go to war themselves. (Not all were willing to wait. Tuttle tells of one twelve year old boy who strode into an Arizona recruiting office and declared, "I don't need my mother's consent...I'm a midget.") Former home front children recall as though it were yesterday the pain of saying good-bye, perhaps forever, to an enlisting father posted overseas and the sometimes equally unsettling experience of a long-absent father's return. A pioneering effort to reinvent the way we look at history and childhood, "Daddy's Gone to War" views the experiences of ordinary children through the lens of developmental psychology. Tuttle argues that the Second World War left an indelible imprint on the dreams and nightmares of an American generation, not only in childhood, but in adulthood as well. Drawing on his wide-ranging research, he makes the case that America's wartime belief in democracy and its rightful leadership of the Free World, as well as its assumptions about marriage and the family and the need to get ahead, remained largely unchallenged until the tumultuous years of the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam and Watergate. As the hopes and expectations of the home front children changed, so did their country's. In telling the story of a generation, Tuttle provides a vital missing piece of American cultural history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019987882X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but from Pearl Harbor on, "the war"--with its blackouts, air raids, and government rationing--became a dramatic presence in all of their lives. Thirty million Americans relocated, 3,700,000 homemakers entered the labor force, sparking a national debate over working mothers and latchkey children, and millions of enlisted fathers and older brothers suddenly disappeared overseas or to far-off army bases. By the end of the war, 180,000 American children had lost their fathers. In "Daddy's Gone to War", William M. Tuttle, Jr., offers a fascinating and often poignant exploration of wartime America, and one of generation's odyssey from childhood to middle age. The voices of the home front children are vividly present in excerpts from the 2,500 letters Tuttle solicited from men and women across the country who are now in their fifties and sixties. From scrap-collection drives and Saturday matinees to the atomic bomb and V-J Day, here is the Second World War through the eyes of America's children. Women relive the frustration of always having to play nurses in neighborhood war games, and men remember being both afraid and eager to grow up and go to war themselves. (Not all were willing to wait. Tuttle tells of one twelve year old boy who strode into an Arizona recruiting office and declared, "I don't need my mother's consent...I'm a midget.") Former home front children recall as though it were yesterday the pain of saying good-bye, perhaps forever, to an enlisting father posted overseas and the sometimes equally unsettling experience of a long-absent father's return. A pioneering effort to reinvent the way we look at history and childhood, "Daddy's Gone to War" views the experiences of ordinary children through the lens of developmental psychology. Tuttle argues that the Second World War left an indelible imprint on the dreams and nightmares of an American generation, not only in childhood, but in adulthood as well. Drawing on his wide-ranging research, he makes the case that America's wartime belief in democracy and its rightful leadership of the Free World, as well as its assumptions about marriage and the family and the need to get ahead, remained largely unchallenged until the tumultuous years of the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam and Watergate. As the hopes and expectations of the home front children changed, so did their country's. In telling the story of a generation, Tuttle provides a vital missing piece of American cultural history.