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We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Classic Board Books)
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"We're going on a bear hunt. / We're going to catch a big one. / What a beautiful day! / We're not scared." So begins Michael Rosen's award-winning read-aloud romp We're Going on a Bear Hunt. In this lovely boxed gift edition illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, a small paperback version of the book is packaged with the softest, most fabulous little brown bear we've ever seen. Reenacting "Splash splosh! Splash splosh! Splash splosh!" across the river is much more fun with an actual bear on hand. (Ages 4 and older)
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Now the very youngest readers can join in the fun with this Classic Board Book edition of We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Full of delightful comedy and high drama, this tale of a brave family's joyous romp through sweeping landscapes is sure to win new fans.
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Fantastic book for new readers.......2007-09-24
Absolutely wonderful book! I guess it's based on a song (that I have not heard), which explains the lyrical flow of the story. Regardless, it is such a fun book to read out loud. The first time I read it to my three boys (2, 4, 5), they begged me to read it again, and again. The next morning, my oldest hopped into bed with me and said, "Mommy I can read this book." Then he "read" the story to me - actually he had memorized the chants. But he was so excited about being able to "read," that it prompted him to jump into his schooling and really focus on learning to read!! This has become a favorite at our house, and we read it at least twice a week. All three of my boys take turns "reading" it too :)
A Classic!.......2007-08-29
A classic book for even the youngest children. Babies will enjoy the many sounds ("swish, swish", etc.) the reader has to make in reading this book. Older children enjoy the anticipation of finding the bear.
Love it more than my son.......2007-08-24
This was an instant hit with my 4 year old...well...a...I kinda had more fun than him the first time. He loves it, this is just plain fun to read. A Must Must Must have for your kids library.
A big hit with my 2 year old!!.......2007-07-18
Just for a little background info on me, I have a BA in English as well as psychology. I worked as a children's library assistant for my first four years out of college. I'm also a mommy to a precious 2 year old daughter, Claire. Claire loves her books, and she adores this one, and has learned to chant diffrent parts of this book with me. It's one that both of us really enjoy!
Good for a 14 month old.......2007-04-28
My 14 month old loves this book. She helps read it by appropriately inserting the "uh oh"s and "oh, no!"s. It's definately also a book she will appreciate more and more as she grows older.
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- The Magic Finger
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The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless pleas for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice -- she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun.
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The Magic Finger.......2007-09-09
ISBN 0590132059 - It seems like every childrens' book I read these days has something to merit a note for the crazy parents. This one is no different. If you're a parent who thinks magic is somehow linked to evil, pass this one up. If you're a parent who's going to be bothered by an anti-hunting message (for real, they exist), go read something else.
The nameless narrator of The Magic Finger tells a story about her neighbors, the Greggs, who enjoy hunting for sport - much to her dismay. Having begged them to stop, she reaches the end of her rope and "puts the magic finger on them all!" in anger. The next morning, the family has begun to turn into ducks, growing wings where their arms had been. At first, the idea of flying makes this change somewhat appealing, but that changes quickly as the Greggs spot four ducks moving into their house - leaving them without food or shelter! They must learn to fend for themselves as ducks until an agreement is reached with the new "people" living in their house.
There's more than one message in this book - first, the repercussions of not controlling your anger, as our narrator discovers when her magic finger is the cause of more than one incident. Second, the anti-hunting theme, which doesn't state that no one should ever hunt. It just says the girl is bothered by the Greggs' hunting for fun. Third, the family reaches an understanding of how the ducks felt, showing that at least trying to see things from someone else's viewpoint is good. There's plenty here, in this tiny book, to talk about with your child! Worth a read for parent and child alike.
A Lesson Learned.......2007-02-26
In this book, a little girl about 8 years old lived on a farm. She was an ordinary little girl with a magic finger that could turn stuff into what she wanted it to be. The Gregg family lived next door and they loved to hunt for geese, squirrels and other wild animals for fun. The little girl loved animals and didn't want to see them hurt. It made the little girl angry every time she would see them leave to go hunting. She tried to talk to the Greggs and convince them to stop killing the wild animals, besides they had a right to live too. They only laughed at her and continued to hunt. This made the little girl even more angry and with a flick of her finger a curse was cast upon the Gregg family. The next morning as the Greggs' woke up they discovered they had wings instead of arms. The hunters had become the hunted. This book was good for learning a lesson on treating others, whether human or animals, as you want to be treated. I love animals so this book had great meaning to me. My favorite character was the little girl because at times I wish I had a magic finger too! An easy, fun book to read for anyone with an imagination.
A Lesson Learned.......2007-02-26
In this book, a little girl about 8 years old lived on a farm. She was an ordinary little girl with a magic finger that could turn stuff into what she wanted it to be. The Gregg family lived next door and they loved to hunt for geese, squirrels and other wild animals for fun. The little girl loved animals and didn't want to see them hurt. It made the little girl angry every time she would see them leave to go hunting. She tried to talk to the Greggs and convince them to stop killing the wild animals, besides they had a right to live too. They only laughed at her and continued to hunt. This made the little girl even more angry and with a flick of her finger a curse was cast upon the Gregg family. The next morning as the Greggs' woke up they discovered they had wings instead of arms. The hunters had become the hunted. This book was good for learning lesson on treating others, whether human or animals, as you want to be treated. I love animals so this book had great meaning to me. My favorite character was the little girl because at times I wish I had a magic finger too! An easy, fun book to read for anyone with an imagination.
A Lesson Learned.......2007-02-22
In this book, a little girl about 8 years old had a magic finger that she would turn stuff into what she wanted to. The Gregg family lived next door and they loved to hunt for geese, squirrels and other wild animals for fun. The little girl loved animals and didn't want to see them hurt. It made the little girl angry every time she would see them leave to go hunting. She tried to talk to the Greggs and convince them to stop killing the wild animals, besides they had a right to live too. They only laughed at her and continued to hunt. This made the little girl even more angry and with a flick of her finger a curse was cast upon the Gregg family. The next morning as the Greggs' awoke they all found out they had wings instead of arms. The hunters had become the hunted.
This book was good for learning a lesson on treating others, whether human or animals, as you want to be treated. I have alot of love for animals so this book had great meaning to me. My favorite character was the little girl because at times I wish I had a magic finger too! An easy, fun book to read for anyone.
The Review.......2007-02-05
Have you ever felt so mad at someone that you want to teach that person a lesson personally? Well in Roald Dahl's "The Magic finger" a certain girl lives next door to the Gregg family-who thinks that hunting is plain fun. For the girl, hunting is just plain horrible. Many times she has tried to talk them out of it-but all they do is laugh in her face. One day, the Greggs go too far and then the little girl gets very very angry and turns her magic finger on them. Unfortunately she really can't control it. Now she turns the Greggs into birds. Not only do they have to live in nests but that is where the trouble begins. This is a short, but funny story about learning lessons. It will have you laughing about until the very end of the book. I recommend this book to all ages. Whether you are an adult or a child you will surely enjoy this book. I give this book a five star rating.
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From the publisher: "Born January 22, 1902, in Arizona Territory, John Woolf O'Connor ultimately became America's most popular outdoor writer. From his first magazine article in 1934, which he sold to Sports Afield for a whopping $12.50, and continuing until just a few weeks before his death in 1978, Jack O'Connor would write nine books on hunting and sporting firearms and more than 1,200 articles for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Redbook, True and Esquire. His longest and most treasured magazine association, however, was with Outdoor Life.
The Lost Classics of Jack O'Connor features 40 of his best Outdoor Life articles, none of which have ever appeared in any other book. They range from O'Connor's hunts for Coues deer in his beloved desert Southwest to his pursuit of Dall sheep and grizzlies in the Yukon and lions and leopards in Africa."
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Russell Annabel is one of the most colorful characters ever to set foot in Alaska, this is his story.
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Jacob F. Rivers's Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative examines classic southern fiction--along with lesser-known literary works--with an eye to the ways that southern writers such as William Elliott, William Gilmore Simms, and William Faulkner depict hunting and outdoorsmanship. Blending literary history with sociology and cultural criticism, Rivers explores the recurring themes of honor, fair play, and noblesse oblige and illustrates how the sporting genre has reflected the moral consciousness of the American South.
Relationships between human beings and animals, as well as the connections between landowners and the soil they claimed as private, have been a key element of southern literature for 150 years. Hunting has provided rich symbolic and philosophical material for writers who celebrate its rituals, its etiquette, and its ability to unite humanity and nature. Rivers examines the role of these moral values and traditions in the literature over time, highlighting early works such as Elliott's Carolina Sports by Land and Water and Simms's The Cub of the Panther, both of which delve into the relationship of man as an extension of nature. He notes the continuity of values in later hunting fiction as well, and maintains that while the twentieth century authors engage similar themes, many of the old traditions are lost to modern society. Faulkner and other modern writers that Rivers includes both share the traditions and chronicle the traditions' demise.
Looking at the writings of Elliott, Simms, and Faulkner, along with those of Archibald Rutledge, Caroline Gordon, James Kilgo, and others, Rivers also addresses the themes of the Southern sporting ethos as an integral part of proper aristocratic conduct. He also looks at the southerner's characteristic attachment to family, land, and the inherited moral imperatives of this society, as well as the code of honorable sportsmanship.
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The companion volume to the
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Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for the hunting life is reflected in his masterful works of fiction, from his famous account of an African safari in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" to passages about duck hunting in Across the River and Into the Trees. For Hemingway, hunting was more than just a passion; it was a means through which to explore our humanity and man's relationship to nature. Courage, awe, respect, precision, patience -- these were the virtues that Hemingway honored in the hunter, and his ability to translate these qualities into prose has produced some of the strongest accounts of sportsmanship of all time.
Hemingway on Hunting offers the full range of Hemingway's writing about the hunting life. With selections from his best-loved novels and stories, along with journalistic pieces from such magazines as Esquire and Vogue, this spectacular collection is a must-have for anyone who has ever tasted the thrill of the hunt -- in person or on the page.
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Hemingway on Hunting, Ernest Hemingway.......2007-05-17
It was good..but a bit long and sometimes it took several days
to read a chapter.
eclectic ernest.......2006-06-16
Bits and pieces from E.H. fiction and nonfiction that are hunting-related.For the outdoor enthusiast, reading the excerpts in this book will be more convenient than reading some of the original novels (e.g. Across the River...)
Hemingway was a great writer because of his ability to be very descriptive while still being economical with his words.Enjoyable read.
One for the book, but constellation for the author.......2002-03-25
As Hemingway the Zen master said, "Some are hunters, some are not." Several Hemingway scholars have treid to explain EH's lifelong affinity for blood sports (notably Bredahl and Drake's 1990 exegesis of Green Hills Of Africa) -- this "package of Papa" is content to just push whole chunks and raw excerpts of Hemingway onto a marketing skewer without any comment. Using "hunting" as a marketing criterion forces together the most flaccid posthumous Hemingway and some of his purest fiction and livliest reportage. It's obvious Hemingway wrote about hunting (and fishing) in the same sense the Homer wrote about Mediterranean tourism. Lazy readers may like the way this editor rearranged Hemingway's cabin furniture, but most of the writing actually seem the duller for being re-packaged to a less spontaneous purpose. Sad to see a great prose turned as a license for 'designer books,' and by his own kin. Some are artists, others are not.
Hemingway hunting related fiction and nonfiction compilation.......2002-03-16
The handsome book contains no new material but is a compilation of hunting-oriented short stories, non-fiction pieces and excerpts from novels. There's a very good scene from "Across the River and Into the Trees" about duck hunting from blinds near Venice. There is a nice selection of photographs of the author with various trophies. One in particular is spectacular showing Hemingway about to fire his rifle at a huge charging lion. The perspective is from just behind Hemingway, his rifle is raised to his shoulder and the onrushing lion appears to be only a few feet away. Another shows Hemingway standing next to same lion, now very dead.
The longish short story The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" which is arguably his best short story is included. It tells the story of wealthy American and his beautiful wife on safari in Africa. The title character behaves shamefully during a lion hunt. That night, his wife sleeps with the white hunter to show her displeasure. The next day while hunting buffalo, he redeems himself and proves that he is not a coward, both to himself and to the onlookers. The short happy life of the title refers to that fact that soon after redeeming his injured manhood against the buffalo, his wife accidentally (or perhaps not accidentally) shoots him in the head as a wounded buffalo charges.
If you are a fan of Hemingway's you've probably read much of this stuff before elsewhere, the non-fiction pieces may be hardest to find elsewhere. This book makes a great gift for a hunting enthusiast who is not especially literary oriented.
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"The Bear, " "The Old People, " "A Bear Hunt, " "Race at Morning"--some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume--in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. "Contains some of Faulkner's best work."
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The Bear Complete.......2004-10-18
I've occasionally used this collection as required reading for troubled and directionless young adult males. "The Race at Dawn" provides an excellent starting place for a discussion for the need to complete their education. The review from 1999 by "A READER" comments about "The Bear" being incomplete; all five sections are printed in the version collected in "Go Down Moses."
his most accessible.......2000-11-18
The essence of political conservatism is the yearning for the best of the culture and moral clime of the past--the sense that something of value to our souls has been lost in the headlong rush of human social progress. Political liberalism, on the other hand, assumes that bureaucrats and technocrats can improve upon centuries old social structures, cultural inheritances and moral codes. But there is one area where the roles of the two are reversed and that is when it comes to the environment. The American Left has a long standing love affair with nature; from Jefferson to Thoureau, Teddy Roosevelt to Al Gore, there is a pastoral strain to liberal politics, a kind of religious belief in an Edenic past and a nearly Biblical sense that man's attempts to control nature have a corrupting influence.
This sentiment has perhaps never been treated more beautifully in our Literature than in Faulkner's great short novel, The Bear. The story of a succession of hunting seasons is basically a warning from Faulkner that as we destroy the wilderness we threaten the traditions and values of our society. Nature is symbolized by the cagey ancient ursine, Old Ben. Most of the tale is told by Ike McCaslin, who is 10 years old as it begins. Initially he flounders through the woods, but as he surrenders himself to the primordial forces of Nature, he is able to sense the bear's presence. Another year, when he sets aside his gun and compass and other accouterments of civilization, he is finally able to see the bear. Gradually he earns his way into the aristocracy of the wild, until, together with Sam Fathers (part black, part Indian, he represents a kind of noble savage) and Boon Hogganbeck (a sort of elemental force of nature) and a suicidally fearless dog named Lion, he hunts down Old Ben after the bear violates the unwritten code of the woods by attacking a horse. But even as Old Ben succumbs, he will take some of them with him and his parting signals the end of a way of life.
Despite some too obscure interior monologue passages, this is Faulkner's most accessible work. It is the only Faulkner I've ever actually reread and it is so rife with symbolism and ulterior meanings, that you can always find something new in it. And, for whatever reason, it is further evidence that sports writing brings out the best in almost every author (see also "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" by John Updike), in fact, it is often anthologized in Greatest Sports Story collections. Regardless of where you find it, or which version you read, it is well worth a shot.
GRADE: B+
Great stories, if incomplete.......1999-01-26
Of course the short stories here are excellent, but it is terrible that the origional Part Four of The Bear has been removed. Anyone who enjoys The Bear owes it to themselves to find a complete copy (it will have five parts) because Part Four is arguably the most important and meaningful portion of the entire story!
Excellent stories hang together as a novel........1998-07-28
I'm re-reading this book and really enjoying the stories (read it as tales in a novel). The book really puts different views to various people's ways of looking at the same stories and family histories. Read this and know why Faulkner is considered one of the best American novelists of all time. His people ring true, and two stories, "The Old People" and "The Bear", are just fantastic.
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Great Book of Short Stories.......2007-07-19
If you like the thrill of a good bird dog nad bird hunting, enjoy sitting down and reading short stories about hunting then this would be a good read.
You dont need to love a dog to enjoy this book!.......2001-06-07
You dont need to love a dog to enjoy this book, but if you dont have a dog now, when your done you may want one!!! I purchased this book because I have a passion for bird hunting, loyal dogs and a good book that refers to both and this book does just that. There are many short stories in the book, some may even bring a tear to your eye. Definetly worth the read.
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In 1867 the total number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region was conservatively estimated at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of this book. Mari Sandoz's canvas is vast, but it is charged with color and excitement—accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, famous frontier characters (Wild Bill Hickok, Lonesome Charlie Reynolds, Buffalo Bill, Sheridan, Custer, and Indian Chiefs Whistler, Yellow Wolf, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull).
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Densely packed with a LOT of information, slow going, worth owning.......2006-07-21
I found pretty much everything a person could want about the history of Buffalo hunting in America in this book- except the author information quoted by others. I'm sure they're right about Mrs. Sandoz but I didn't find anything about her.
Her style was to write sort of as an anonymous eyewitness of those past events that occurred decades before her birth.
Some of it I've read before in other books (the Adobe Walls Indian battle is described here in great detail, just a little differently than other versions)but most of her sources listed in the bibliography you'll have a hard time finding (1890's to about 1951). Facts, figures, it's pretty much all here but very slow going.
Some Unforgettable Tales.......2004-08-30
The Buffalo Hunters is interesting enough to keep the reader engaged from beginning to end, though it does tend to get bogged down with excessive minutiae in some parts, as if the author could have used a good editor to rearrange some of the material and maybe delete some of the extraneous detail. Mari Sandoz was an authority on the white settlement of the Great Plains. As miners, farmers and other frontier types would visit her father, young Mari would listen to their stories of the olden days. Much of the material in this book is no doubt taken from those stories. In some cases they were actual eyewitness accounts, in others a story was told as passed on from another in the ancient tradition of oral history. The oral stories are of course supplemented and supported by academic research, making this book a valuable primary source of information about the Old West.
Some of these tales are unforgettable: like the washtub man, an unfortunate greenhorn who got caught in a ferocious blizzard. His rescuers found him unconscious. They took him to a doctor who promptly amputated both arms and both legs due to extreme frostbite. And the story of how Wild Bill Hickok was almost killed by a band of renegade Indians until an Indian chief came to his rescue at the last minute, ordering the would-be killers to let him go. Some years later Hickok murdered this chief for no apparent reason when the chief rode into Hickok's camp one morning for coffee.
Sandoz describes the slaughter of the buffalo in vivid detail to the point that it's almost painful to continue reading. The hunters would set fifty caliber rifles on bipods and start killing by the dozens until the barrels almost melted down. It is estimated that over fifty million buffalo roamed the Great Plains before the Civil War. By 1884 there were only a few hundred left. Just like the beaver in the early nineteenth century, the buffalo were hunted practically to extinction solely for their hides, which made huge profits for the hunters and railroads. Buffalo hides were the gold of the Great Plains. There was also a market for buffalo bones that were shipped back east to make fertilizer. The life and culture of the Plains Indians depended almost totally on the buffalo. The U.S. Army's ultimate conquest of the Plains Indians was, to a great degree, the result of the loss of the Indians' main food supply. The Indians were as much starved into submission as beaten into it by force of arms.
The life of Mari Sandoz is an interesting story in itself. Born in western Nebraska in 1896 to Swiss immigrant parents, she suffered through a harsh and cruel childhood receiving only an eighth-grade education by age seventeen, and speaking only German until adolescence. She married at eighteen and divorced five years later, the marriage apparently a loveless one. She moved to Lincoln, Nebraska where she worked at low-paying jobs while attending classes at the University of Nebraska. She could never officially enroll at the university because she never completed high school, so she was never able to earn a college degree. Her one love was reading and writing, and it was in the early Lincoln years that she taught herself the skills and technique of writing. By the time of her death from cancer in 1966 she had written twenty books and many short stories.
For every Babe Ruth there are hundreds who toil away in the minors never making it to the big leagues. Likewise for writers, for every Hemingway or Steinbeck there are many who grind out book after book but never achieve great notoriety. They are regarded as local or regional writers. Mari Sandoz devoted her entire life to the art of writing about the American West in a truthful and honest way, using the language and syntax of one who grew up in the West. She was ahead of her time; she told the history of the West from both a white and Indian perspective, without any white bias, before it became fashionably chic to do so.
History at its finest.......2004-03-12
This is quite simply one of the very best history books that I have ever read. It is detailed without being wordy, exceptionally well written, and paints a vivid picture of what is was like to make a living following the great herds. If you want to read one book about the buffalo hunters, this is it.
Incredibly detailed painting of a little understood period........1998-06-27
I really enjoyed the book . Sandoz has taken a lot of scattered tales and woven them into a captivating tale, without only giving one side of the story. She tells all of the reasons that the buffalo slaughter occured and the ripple effects that happened from there. I am going to be looking up more of her many books thank you Mari
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