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Ray and Paddy - Couverture souple

Ebert, Beatrice

 
9781425969691: Ray and Paddy
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1425969690 ISBN 13 : 9781425969691
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

¿¿¿¿ Technology of today has made living easy for us.¿Our modern-day children have and can enjoy almost anything they desire. One wonders if they have any concept of what it was¿like to live 70 years ago, during the Great Depression. A few books and movies have revealed some of the children's challenges of that era; now fantasy and crime stories have taken up a good portion of children's liiterature and TV. The South Florida Sun Sentinel wrote in part recently: "As they experienced parenthood, filmmakers find a new interest in movies about family life." This book fits right into that revival category, and specifically young riding ponies. ¿¿¿ Stories about young animals, along with grown horses are plentiful. However, only a limited number have touched on ponies... the chief interest of most children 7 through 12 years. ¿¿¿¿ Ray and Paddy tells the story of a 10 year-old farm boy, wanting a pony so bad that he could hardly think of anything else. This boy, Ray, was my brother. We lived on a farm with our parents and older brother, Billy. ¿¿¿¿ It got pretty exciting the first year, when an untrained Shetland pony arrived on our farm. The story reveals Ray's dedication for caring and training this pony. He named him Paddy. He was a true Shetland, being stubborn and strong willed. That complicated things and shifted Paddy's value from carnival training to something quite different and his value lessened. Would Paddy be able to stay on the farm? ¿¿¿¿ How Ray and the family dealt with the funny positives and serious negatives relating to Paddy staying, is a remarkable story. The family's resourcefulness in dealing with the Great Depression along wiith keeping Paddy, holds the reader's attention from beginning to end.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

¿¿¿¿ Technology of today has made living easy for us.¿Our modern-day children have and can enjoy almost anything they desire. One wonders if they have any concept of what it was¿like to live 70 years ago, during the Great Depression. A few books and movies have revealed some of the children's challenges of that era; now fantasy and crime stories have taken up a good portion of children's liiterature and TV. The South Florida Sun Sentinel wrote in part recently: "As they experienced parenthood, filmmakers find a new interest in movies about family life." This book fits right into that revival category, and specifically young riding ponies. ¿¿¿ Stories about young animals, along with grown horses are plentiful. However, only a limited number have touched on ponies... the chief interest of most children 7 through 12 years. ¿¿¿¿ Ray and Paddy tells the story of a 10 year-old farm boy, wanting a pony so bad that he could hardly think of anything else. This boy, Ray, was my brother. We lived on a farm with our parents and older brother, Billy. ¿¿¿¿ It got pretty exciting the first year, when an untrained Shetland pony arrived on our farm. The story reveals Ray's dedication for caring and training this pony. He named him Paddy. He was a true Shetland, being stubborn and strong willed. That complicated things and shifted Paddy's value from carnival training to something quite different and his value lessened. Would Paddy be able to stay on the farm? ¿¿¿¿ How Ray and the family dealt with the funny positives and serious negatives relating to Paddy staying, is a remarkable story. The family's resourcefulness in dealing with the Great Depression along wiith keeping Paddy, holds the reader's attention from beginning to end.

Biographie de l'auteur

¿¿ Ray and Paddy is a memoir of our family living on a farm in Wisconsin during the Depression. The family included me 8, Ray 10 and Billy 12 along with Mom and Dad. That period was a time of hard work, survival and saving and it meant just that. ¿¿ Ray, my 10 year old brother always wanted a pony. Our father arranged to board an untrained Shetland for the winter months. Ray named him Paddy.¿The head-strong pony came and stayed and made our family experiences very interesting. ¿¿ Three more children were added to our family after a few years. Our parents made it quite clear that we were a little crowded and we should think about finding our own way upon graduation from high school. ¿My education involved commercial courses and I became a secretary. I took a job with the state of Wisconsin, worked in three different state offices. I relocated with my husband wherever his work assignments took him. ¿¿¿Several years later found me at home being mother to two active children. After they were older, I felt I could return to my work with the state. I worked until age 55 and upon retirement moved to Florida. Our two children were well on their way towards their masters degrees. ¿¿ During my working years, I joined many organizations such as the Toastmistress Club (public speaking); the local YWCA writing press releases and eventually a member and chairman of the board.¿ I liked writing so much, that I decided to enhance my wriiting skills. I completed an Advanced Course from the Institute of Children's Literature in Connecticut and began work on Ray and Paddy...the story I always wanted to write.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1425969690
ISBN 13 
9781425969691
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
92
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