Nature’s Viewpoint 2. These monthly cartoons of garden creatures from Thomas Hollyday’s pen make all ages laugh with their wry wisdom.
“Utterly charming.”
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“Water, water everywhere but not a drop for me!”
Years ago, I had a dream that I was in my studio working on a story. I heard a tap at my back door. I stood up and went to the door. I remember thinking that one of the neighborhood children must be there asking me for help finding one of their soccer balls constantly kicked over my fence.
When I opened the door I looked around my large backyard with all its heavy shrubs and my wife’s flower beds, but spotted no children. Perhaps, I thought, someone is playing a trick on me. The kids are always up to something and kidding around is part of life on my street. Perhaps my wife could speak to some of the other women on the street and see what could be done. Honestly, I work at home and could use a little more peace and quiet.
I pulled on the handle and closed the large wooden door. Just as I turned towards my studio, there was another tap.
This time I opened the door and looked down more closely. A bundle of brown and black fur moved near my shoe. Two small animals were resting there. Their eyes were on me. They were chipmunks and one had no tail.
Now, this is the funny part. My mind received a message. How that happened I do not know nor understand. Be that as it may, the message was in good English and in a courteous tone.
The chipmunk with no tail asked, in a chuckling sort of voice, “Can I have a drink of water from your kitchen faucet?”
After I recovered from surprise, I spoke, “Sure.” Then I added, after glancing around the large backyard, still wet from morning dew, “What happened to the water out back?”
He nodded that he understood me and sent his mental answer, “It is polluted.”
Needless to say, and even though I was not a little surprised at the pollution, I asked him to wait a moment. I rushed to my kitchen and fetched a saucer of cool water. I put this in front of them. They stood on hind feet, front paws on the side of the small glass dish. They gulped and licked the water.
After a minute, the one with no tail rubbed his mouth with his front paws and sat back satisfied. Apparently chipmunks don’t spend much time doing any one thing. He chuckled again and sent his mental message,
“Thanks. This warm weather makes me thirsty especially when I run around chasing my girl.”
“What happened to your tail?”
He replied over his shoulder as they ran away, “My mom said the bad water she drank caused me to be born without a tail.”
When I woke up I went to the back door and looked out. The yard was the same as always. I placed a bowl of fresh drinking water on the ground and watched as the chipmunks came to drink. I didn’t see one with no tail and I didn’t get any mental messages.
Later as I began studying better methods of providing wholesome drinking water to animals, I attended a meeting of my bird watching friends at the suburban home of the club president. It was a colorful get-together with about fifty birders, both men and women and a few children. There was the usual collection of imitation of bird sounds with human callers showing their latest voices. I remember one caller voicing a plaintive nuthatch which was delightful.
I was in a conversation with several of my friends when an older gentleman joined us. We were talking about my new favorite subject, providing fresh water to wildlife, and he asked me, “It’s foolishness. Don’t you think that birds can find water?”
Well, he was a distinguished birder, known for achieving a life list of hundreds of local birds he had seen. I didn’t want to start an argument. I did reply, “I know that they can find some kind of water around the yard.”
He replied, “That’s the whole point. Nature takes care of itself.”
Then I asked him a more pointed question. “Would you drink from the puddles on your lawn?”
He smiled at me as he realized I’d just pointed out the whole issue. He walked away without answering.
These days, each morning I go to my backyard and place fresh water outside for the wildlife. I always look around for a chipmunk with no tail. He’ll be a descendant of the one I dreamed about. If I should spot him, I’ll look into his eyes, give him a wink, and let him know that I’m trying.
Something to remember:
Water covers 71 percent of the earth’s surface. Of this 96 percent is in the oceans and about 2 percent is in groundwater. 2 more percent is in ice and the rest is in the atmosphere. Only 2.5 percent of this water is fresh and almost 99 percent of that is in ice or underground, not easily available to animals. Less that .3 percent is in rivers and lakes and the atmosphere. A tiny bit more is carried in plants and animal bodies.
Here’s another interesting fact. About 70 percent of the small portion of the water on earth that is drinkable by animals is used in human agriculture including animals raised by humans to be eaten.
Wildlife doesn’t have much left to drink, does it?
Thomas Hollyday 8/22/2017
Living with Nature- Two Thoughtful Books
At one time or another some of us have thought about what it might be to live in nature, out in the sunlight with clear air and clean water and with the company of animals around us.
Most of the books about this subject are unrealistic and don’t write of dangerous animals, disease, and lack of medical care. Self reliance is the reality of nature living.
Two books, one fiction and one non-fiction, have tackled this subject.
JANE, The Woman Who Loved Tarzan, by Robin Maxwell, Tor Books, 2012, ISBN 9780765333509, Paperback, Ebook, or Audio, https://www.amazon.com/Jane-Woman-Who-Loved-Tarzan/dp/0765333597/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483714521&sr=1-1&keywords=jane+tarzan
From Amazon: “Cambridge, England, 1905. Jane Porter is hardly a typical woman of her time. The only female student in Cambridge University’s medical program, she is far more comfortable in a lab coat dissecting corpses than she is in a corset and gown sipping afternoon tea. A budding paleoanthropologist, Jane dreams of traveling the globe in search of fossils that will prove the evolutionary theories of her scientific hero, Charles Darwin.
When dashing American explorer Ral Conrath invites Jane and her father to join an expedition deep into West Africa, she can hardly believe her luck. Africa is every bit as exotic and fascinating as she has always imagined, but Jane quickly learns that the lush jungle is full of secrets―and so is Ral Conrath. When danger strikes, Jane finds her hero, the key to humanity’s past, and an all-consuming love in one extraordinary man: Tarzan of the Apes.”
Critical Acclaim: “Finally an honest portrayal of the only woman of whom I have been really, really jealous. What a wonderful idea to write this book. Now I am jealous all over again!” ―Jane Goodall PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace
My impression of this fictional book is that its fast paced adventure takes the early concept of Jane and Tarzan in Edgar Rice Burrough’s 1912 pulp magazine story and adapts it to the modern world of science. What Maxwell also does also is remind us in 2012 writing style of self reliance. It is humanity in a world without safety or assurance us of a long life. In this way it stirs us to think of ourselves as more than we may be in a our current life. Its a powerful and entertaining reminder of the wonder of nature around us and the freedom it offers is inspiring.
Into the Heart, by Kenneth Good
Simon and Schuster, 1991, ISBN 9780671728748
Hardcover, Paperback https://www.amazon.com/Into-Heart-Pursuit-Knowledge-Yanomama/dp/0671728741/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483714604&sr=1-1&keywords=into+the+heart
Kenneth Good’s non fiction scientific book prompts us to ask ourselves the question. “How are we so advanced from these people?” Moreover, “Can we live with nature the way they do?” Many of us who have deserted the city for the homesteading lifestyle will readily admit that any of us can do this and happily so. The book gives us pause in our civilized aspirations to ask whether what we are doing with our lives is really worth it and whether these wilderness folks know something that we don’t.
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HAPPY BIRD BOOK NEWSLETTER August 2015
The latest of our nature books, wildlife cartoon books, and the River Sunday Romance Mystery Series
Water for Backyard Pets and Wildlife by Thomas Hollyday
This is the first book on the subject that we’ve seen anywhere. A winner for a book collection and for gifts. Check it out and we know you will agree this is a handy book.
You should sell the print version of this book in your store or have it in your nature library. Clean water is the best gift you and your customers can give to animals. .
Remember your backyard is nature’s playground. You do your best to make sure the birds have seed, and that the environment is safe for everyone. But are you really providing the best watering options for your pets and wild friends? This book will ensure that you create the ideal habitat for all animals that come to visit you!
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Nature’s Viewpoint by Thomas Hollyday
Want to know what the backyard nature creatures really think? Boston Cartoonist Thomas Hollyday is loved for his simple insightful creatures. In The Nature Viewpoint he records the hilarious comments of his imaginary nature realm drawn from his childhood on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A recognized humorist with a fluid line, his playful wildlife drawings guide us through the year with some of the funniest most poignant cartoons anywhere.Thomas Hollyday’s funny animal cartoons have given us good laughs when they have appeared on the national scene He was voted to membership in the prestigious New York Cartoonist Graphics Artist Guild. Chuckle at this collection of his thoughtful and very amusing drawings, penned in his unique, easy to understand and simply drawn style.
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Slave Graves by Thomas Hollyday
Ghosts are hiding below.
An archeologist tries to save a colonial site against racial and financial violence. Maggie his feisty coworker is sure she’s found something amazing. A clean mystery for the family.
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CONTACTS for Thomas Hollyday and Happy Bird
Upcoming bookshows in MARYLAND
Look for this author’s books at the Eastern shore Writers Association booth at the Baltimore Book Festival, Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, September 25-27, 2015
Upcoming bookshows in MASSACHUSETTS
Check out Tom’s books at the Boston Writers SIG booth at the Boston Book Festival, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts
Where to buy our books
Thomas Hollyday Ebooks are sold at Amazon, Nook, Smashwords, Kobo, Itunes.
Paperbacks are available at Barnes and Noble and selected independent bookstores
Oregon: Powells,
Maryland: Mystery Loves Company, Easton News Center,
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A question of survival for our wildlife, April 17, 2015
By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
This review is from: Water for Backyard Pets and Wildlife (Kindle Edition)
Thomas Hollyday is a well-known writer of mysteries – there are 6 volumes in his River Sunday Romance Mysteries Series – but he also is concerned about the environment and has published two books on the latter subject. One of the reasons Thomas’ book works so well for readers is the mater-of-fact neighborly way he has of expressing himself. In a very tender little preface he discusses a dream he had that changed his attitude, and then ties his dream into the content of this book: `So, after weeks of thought on this issue of animals and water, I decided to invent a water dish that would provide fresh drinking water to wildlife. It was one that was easy to use, portable, and worked in every season without electricity. I sold this device, the Solar Sipper, in markets all over the world. With the funds from this project, I began to champion preserving clean water resources for wildlife. These days, each morning I go to my backyard and place a Solar Sipper filled with fresh water outside for the wildlife. I always look around for a chipmunk with no tail. He’ll be a descendant of the one I dreamed about. If I should spot him, I’ll look into his eyes, give him a wink, and let him know that I’m trying.’ In his introduction he offers many facts, most of which we haven’t considered: `The purpose of this little book is to look into all the issues affecting drinking water for backyard animals. One thing is for sure. If our outdoor friends could get access to the safe water that our indoor pets enjoy, they would be a lot better off. That bowl of clean water next to the pet food dish is not always present in the back yard environment. You see, the indoor water passes the test of our town municipalities and water commissions. Before it enters the pipes to our house, it has undergone a bevy of corrections to make sure it is absolutely safe. If a new disease enters the water supply, the commission treats it immediately. This may not be true in all countries but it is for sure in the United States.’ And from this opening he addresses taking Inventory of our backyard habitat, noting Waterer Type (`outdoor animals deserve the same care as indoor animals. Clean their water dish and add clean water daily with the food’), Analyze the construction of the Watering Device, Analyze where animals drink, Heat and Cold out in the yard (and how to regulate that), and then he offers Government-based websites and Private Organization websites from which to gather information. This is a sensitive caring book by a man who cares about not only how humans are going to survive the current environmental crises, but also how we are responsible for assuring that our precious wildlife, often dependent on us, are treated equally! A must read for everyone who cares. Grady Harp, April 15
Happy Bird Corporation NATURE NEWSLETTER
March 2015
(The latest about nature books, Chesapeake and other fiction, Solar Sipper animal drinking products, water resource issues, and wildlife cartoon books)
BOOKS
New Book on providing drinking water to backyard animals
Our Solar Sipper retailers will enjoy this publication for their book and pamphlet sales. A 3rd edition of Happy Bird Corporation Tips on Watering Wild Birds in Waterers and Birdbaths is available at our EBAY store. It’s great for wild bird lovers and pet fans who want to improve the watering of their furry and feathered friends.
A new chapbook Watering Backyard Pets and Wildlife will be published in the spring of 2015 to draw attention to the need for fresh unpolluted water for wildlife. This short book provides ways to inventory your backyard for water and references to learn more about animal needs.
New Fiction, Poetry and Non-fiction
Lynette Hartwig’s extensively researched guide to the world of hiring a contractor for your home updates.
They Sue Ellen Thompson “The poems in They tell the story of a mother, her aging father, and her transgender child.”
Family Secrets Dr Fran White “Prompted by the powerful theme of South Pacific, Brandy Grey confronts her past of abandonment and lies and determines to close the chapter that has been haunting her entire life, the carefully hidden secret of her heritage.”
A Week in Beijing Meg Eden “This book of twenty-one poems charts the narrator’s relationship with the mysterious Beijing, a woman who personifies the city for which she is named.”
Happy Bird Corporation will show its Chesapeake titles at the famous Gaithersburg Book Festival, Gaithersburg, Maryland .May 16.
FREE Kindle EBOOK Slave Graves thrilling romantic murder mystery novel! When Dr. Frank Light, archaeologist, is dragged into the marshes of Maryland, Maggie, his feisty colleague, is sure she’s found something amazing.
WATER
The Commercial animal Solar Sipper Model 10011 with its 4” larger animal opening has found a home with backyard poultry and with dog owners. It has the features that count for animals. Passive solar means that expensive solar cells are not used to convert heat to electricity and to use that electricity to run heaters. Instead it directly radiates the heat from a dark surface to the water that surface covers. It’s simple, inexpensive, and efficient in attracting radiant heat in the same way as solar pipes heating water on a roof. It is competitive to electric powered drinkers and operates in sunlight when animals range outside and like to drink. It has no wires for animals like chickens to peck or chew. Since it only works to about 20 deg. F, it doesn’t allow animals to freeze parts of their bodies as can happen with too hot open water being provided in frigid temperatures. On top of that, like all Solar Sippers, it covers the water to keep out bacteria and it has inner insulation from its three part construction.
Check out our recent test videos of these Solar Sipper units 10040, 10008, and the dog or commercial version Solar Sipper 10011 in operation on YouTube. These videos show backyard weather down to 20 degrees F. with some clouds and light wind compromising the sunlight. The Solar Sippers consistently stayed ice free even though an open water dish froze solid.
Remember, every effort you make to use less electricity keeps us from using fossil fuels to make that electricity, and thus, keeps the climate clean. Go solar!
From our friends in the wild bird and pet industry
Plow and Hearth is offering a three decker Outdoor Cat House.
Duncraft promotes a well designed three in one Bird Feeder
Goldcrest in Mexico MO is excited to report that their 2014 warehouse sale grew to 600 retailers from 46 states and 4 Canadian provinces. Grant Toellner has announced expansion by opening a showroom at America’s Mart. For more, contact grant@goldcrestdistributing.com
Update on World water resource news.
“The Earth’s freshwater Reserves are Disappearing” from James Farmiglietti, NASA, in Business Insider “ In many parts of the world, in particular in the dry, mid-latitudes, far more water is used than is available on an annual, renewable basis. Precipitation, snowmelt, and streamflow are no longer enough to supply the multiple, competing demands for society’s water needs. Because the gap between supply and demand is routinely bridged with non-renewable groundwater, even more so during drought, groundwater supplies in some major aquifers will be depleted in a matter of decades. The myth of limitless water and the free-for-all mentality that has pervaded groundwater use must now come to an end.” Ed. The photographs of the Earth and the charts including those of California are terrifying.
WILDLIFE CARTOONS
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that the incomparable Mort Drucker will be the inaugural honoree of the “NCS Medal of Honor” at the 69th Annual NCS Reuben Awards taking place in Washington D.C. on May 23rd, 2015. We all know him from his work in MAD magazine.
FREE EBOOK ATTENTION NATURE RETAILERS: Get your copy of the free Kindle EBook Nature’s Viewpoint, March 11. Every nature store, wild bird store and pet store should carry this book in its print version for YA fans of wildlife and pets. Put it on your book shelf. Nature’s Viewpoint has placed number one in Kindle Short reads, Humor, and Entertainment. Also check out Facebook Animal viewpoint cartoons for free use in your pet or wild bird newsletters
CONTACTS
Happy Bird Solar Sipper Products are sold by vendors throughout the world. Happy Bird Publications including Thomas Hollyday Ebooks are sold at Amazon, Nook, Smashwords, Kobo, Itunes. Paperbacks are available at Barnes and Noble, Powells, and selected bookstores such as Mystery Loves Company, Oxford, Maryland, Easton News Center, Easton, Maryland, Wellesley Books, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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Happy Bird Corporation NEWSLETTER, Manufacturer of animal water products, activist in water resources for animals, and publisher of fiction, non-fiction and illustration. Special edition 13 February 2015
Nature’s Viewpoint, Volume one of Thomas Hollyday’s animal cartoons has placed number one in Kindle Short reads Humor and Entertainment.
Get your free copy on February 15 at Amazon Kindle.
Don’t have a Kindle app on your phone? Here’s all you do. Go to Amazon.com. Search in Books for Nature’s Viewpoint. Select the ebook version. A prompt will inform you how to download your Kindle app and the free ebook.
Tom’s cartoons shine with joy and amusement as he presents an imaginary nature realm drawn from his childhood on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A recognized humorist with a fluid line, his playful wildlife drawings guide us through the year with poignant, smile-inducing views of the world around us. Tom is loved by fans for his expressive, simple drawings, reminiscent of Thurber. There’s no better introduction to Hollyday’s unique style than Nature’s Viewpoint.
Enjoy comments on many of Tom’s published drawings from magazines and newsletters over the years Facebook on Hollyday cartoons .
Tom Hollyday will be signing copies of his latest novel China Jewel
at Wellesley Books , 82 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02482 781 431 1160
Thursday 26 February
7 to 8:30 PM.
For all you sailors and history buffs China Jewel , the latest in the series of River Sunday novels of Hollyday’s Chesapeake town and characters , is about a contemporary tall ship race to an old tea port in China. The voyage is filled with treachery, murders and the search for a lost Chinese jewel of great
historical value. Of this novel’s characters none is more
fascinating to modern readers than a father trying to renew a relationship with his long lost son.
The River Sunday series of novels feature Chesapeake lore and his plots
include treasure, pirates, espionage, racism, religion and
terrorists. Titles from his ebook list are listed on Amazon Kindle, Smashwords, Kobo, Itunes and Barnes and Noble. Read his 5 star reviews. You’ll see he is a terrific read and well worth a visit to Wellesley Books for a signed print copy. Read more at facebook.com/riversundayromancemysteries.
CONTACTS
Hollyday Ebooks are sold at Amazon, Nook, Smashwords, Kobo, Itunes. Paperbacks are available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Stores are Barnes and Noble, Powells, and selected bookstores at Mystery Loves Company, Oxford, Maryland, Easton News Center, Easton, Maryland, Wellesley Books, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Questions contact Happy Bird Corporation, PO Box 86, Weston, MA 02493.
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Happy Bird Corporation NEWSLETTER, Manufacturer of animal water products, activist in water resources for animals, and publisher of fiction, non-fiction and illustration. February 2015
ANIMAL SECTION
The Commercial animal unit which covers the drinking water, insulates, and provides passive solar heating has found a home with backyard poultry farms. Passive solar means that expensive solar cells are not used to convert heat to electricity and to use that electricity to run heaters. Instead it directly radiates the heat from a dark surface to the water that surface covers. Simple, inexpensive, and efficient like the solar pipes heating water on a roof. It is competitive to electric powered drinkers and operates in sunlight when animals range outside and like to drink. It has no wires for animals like chickens to peck or chew. Since it only works to about 20 deg. F, it doesn’t allow animals to freeze parts of their bodies as can happen with too hot open water being provided in frigid temperatures. Check out recent videos of these Solar Sipper units 10040, 10008, and the dog version Solar Sipper 10011 in operation on YouTube. Compare their drinking water to the frozen water nearby in the open bowl. These videos show backyard weather down to 20 degrees F. even with some clouds and light wind compromising the sunlight. Remember, every effort you make to use less electricity keeps us from using fossil fuels to make that electricity, and thus, keeps the climate clean. Go solar!
From our friends in the industry
Plow and Hearth is offering a three decker Outdoor Cat House. Duncraft promotes a well designed three in one Bird Feeder
Distributor Goldcrest in Mexico MO is excited to report that their 2014 warehouse sale grew to 600 retailers from 46 states and 4 Canadian provinces. Grant Toellner has announced expansion by opening a showroom at America’s Mart. For more, contact grant@goldcrestdistributing.com
World water resource meetings.
COP 21, The Conference of the Parties, will meet at Le Bourget, Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015. Its goal will be to limit the global average temperature rise to a maximum of 2 degrees Celcius (3.6 deg F). the meeting will assemble 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Climate control will affect clean water for animals. COP21
From ARC news. (ESRI.COM) We now have a computerized view of the world in terms of 250 x 250 meter squares using common terms, the report says. The characteristics are landform, climate, and rock type. The fourth characteristics, land cover, is influenced by these first three. The graphics show us how species can survive. This is a wonderful study instrument for planning ecological work on our planet.
The Groundwater Foundation is thirty years old this year. With this anniversary a call is out to protect our national drinking water. Check out the EPA program on this at http://www2.epa.gov/safedrinkingwater40. Keep in mind that safe drinking water applies to our backyard animal friends too.
BOOK SECTION
Animal water materials
A 3rd edition of Happy Bird Corporation Tips on Watering Wild Birds in Waterers and Birdbaths is available at our EBAY store.
A new chapbook Watering Backyard Pets and Wildlife will be published in the spring of 2015 to draw attention to the need for fresh unpolluted water for wildlife. This short book provides ways to inventory your backyard for water and references to learn more about animal needs.
Subscribe to our blog on animal water and our Facebook page facebook.com/solarsipper
Fiction and Non-fiction
Poem “the blonde girl” is published in Mused, Winter solstice issue.
FREE Kindle EBOOK Slave Graves thrilling romantic murder mystery novel! Dr. Frank Light, archaeologist, is dragged into the marshes of Maryland. Maggie, his feisty colleague, is sure she’s found something amazing.
Thomas Hollyday will be meeting fans at Wellesley Books, Wellesley Ma on February 26, 2015, 7 to 830 PM. Nature’s Viewpoint, his cartoon book, will be introduced.
The author plans to show his suspense novels Powerboat Racer on civil rights and China Jewel on a modern sea saga at the famous Gaithersburg Book Festival, Gaithersburg, Maryland .May 16.
Monthly writing blog by Johns Hopkins Writing Seminar trained novelist and historian. Writing
Photographs and technical information as well as reviews behind all the Happy Bird titles. – Facebook on Hollyday novels..
From Our Friends in Books
Osprey Point, Dave Reinhart. A supervisor at a nuclear power plant is found dead in his office. Is it suicide, an accident—or murder?
CitizenChip, Wil Howitt. From his character “Me, I kinda like humans. They have fun quirks. But not all of my kind agree with me, and they’re losing patience”
Aquarian Awakenings, Lisa Shea. Commander Jon Paxton was transfixed by the woman before him. He’d had lovers in the past, certainly – women who eased his loneliness. But none had ever called to him the way Nicole did. None had ever fit into his life as neatly as a key fits into its lock.
Eastern Shore Writers Association
Authors showing this spring at Gaithersburg Maryland Book Festival
Joan Cooper The Portia Journal – In an effort to reconcile with her estranged family, Edith Troth spends the summer on an Outer Banks island. A web of long-held secrets tangle and break as the family’s machinations are revealed.
Joyce Edelston THE ROCK CREEK SHAMAN is the story of War-ne-la, named after a shaman from her mother’s British Columbian Kwakiutl tribe;. War-ne-la becomes aware at a young age of her abilities to interact with the spirit world who teach her how to become a healing shaman.
J.C.Elkin World Class: Poems Inspired by the ESL Classroom. A teacher illustrates their struggles and triumphs by addressing their linguistic and cultural challenges alongside social issues such as poverty, abuse, religion, illegal immigration, education, feminism, and war.
ILLUSTRATION SECTION
The National Cartoonists Society is pleased to announce a new digital magazine. The publication is free to those of us who are fans of the illustrators of comic drawings.
Nature’s Viewpoint, Volume one of Thomas Hollyday’s animal cartoons has placed number one in Kindle Short reads Humor and Entertainment. Get your copy at our free day on February 15 at Kindle. Tom’s cartoons shine with joy and amusement as he presents an imaginary nature realm drawn from his childhood on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A recognized humorist with a fluid line, his playful wildlife drawings guide us through the year with poignant, smile-inducing views of the world around us. Tom is loved by fans for his expressive, simple drawings, reminiscent of Thurber. There’s no better introduction to Hollyday’s unique style than Nature’s Viewpoint.
CONTACTS
Hollyday Ebooks are sold at Amazon, Nook, Smashwords, Kobo, Itunes. Paperbacks are available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Stores are Barnes and Noble, Powells, and selected bookstores at Mystery Loves Company, Oxford, Maryland, Easton News Center, Easton, Maryland, Wellesley Books, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Questions contact Happy Bird Corporation, PO Box 86, Weston, MA 02493.
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