It is, however, Doubleday and Anchor's policy to stand with our authors when accusations are initially leveled against their work, and we continue to believe this is right and proper. A publisher's relationship with an author is based to an extent on trust. Mr. Frey's repeated representations of the book's accuracy, throughout publication and promotion, assured us that everything in it was true to his recollections. When the Smoking Gun report appeared, our first response, given that we were still learning the facts of the matter, was to support our author. Since then, we have questioned him about the allegations and have sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.
We bear a responsibility for what we publish, and apologize to the reading public for any unintentional confusion surrounding the publication of A Million Little Pieces. We are immediately taking the following actions:
The jacket for all future editions will carry the line "With new notes from the publisher and from the author."
*Customers should find the Author's Note and Publisher's Note in copies purchased from Amazon.com after April 15, 2006.
Note: The following editorial reviews were written before the recent revelations by James Frey and the publisher.
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The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:
I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.
One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.
The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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“The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs’
Junky.” —The Boston Globe
“Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey’s staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A brutal, beautifully written memoir.”—The Denver Post
“Gripping . . . A great story . . . You can’t help but cheer his victory.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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At the age of twenty-three, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his four front teeth had been knocked out. His nose was broken and there was a hole through his cheek. He had no idea where the plane was headed or what had happened over the preceding two weeks. He had been an alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three. When he checked into a treatment facility shortly thereafter, he was told he could either stop using or die before he reached twenty-four.
A Million Little Pieces is Frey's acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab; fiercely honest and deeply affecting, it is one of the most graphic and immediate books ever to be written about addiction and recovery.
"James Frey has written the War and Peace of addiction. It lends new meaning to the word 'harrowing' and one sometimes shudders to read it. But deep down, beneath all the layers and the masks, there lives something unconquerable in Frey's hurt spirit... And the writing, the writing, the writing."
PAT CONROY
"A Million Little Pieces is as intense and perfectly detailed an account of a human quitting his drug and alcohol dependency as you are likely to read. And James Frey is horribly honest and funny in a young-guard Eggers and Wallace sort of way, but perhaps more contained and measured. He is unerring in his descent into a world where the characters need help in such extremely desperate ways. Read this immediately."
GUS VAN SANT
"A Million Little Pieces is this generation's most comprehensive book about addiction: a heartbreaking memoir defined by its youthful tone and poetic honesty. Beneath the brutality of James Frey's painful process of growing up, there are simple gestures of kindness that will reduce even the most jaded to tears. Very few books earn those tears—this one does. It will have you sobbing, laughing, angry, frustrated, and most importantly, hopeful. A Million Little Pieces is inspirational and essential. A remarkable performance."
BRET EASTON ELLIS
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Incredible.......2007-10-08
This book was incredible. I loved every page of it. I like how Frey presented the stories, the experiences, etc. It made me sob, think, laugh, ponder, cringe, and embrace the journey of the book. Get over the controversy and let yourself become addicted to the writing of Frey.
A MUST READ.............2007-10-02
I too read this book on a lark just to see what all the fuss was about. I found it very difficult to put down dispite all that I had heard about it. I went into reading it knowing that the book was not completely factual and still enjoyed it trememdously. There were a couple of parts in the book which were difficult to read (i.e. - my teeth hurt for a while afterwards), but whole book was definately worth it. I think JAMES FREY may have inadvertantly fell into a new career for himself.....author of fiction.
A Milion Little Pieces.......2007-09-12
I finally got around to this book.Even after all the neg. re-reviews,I loved this book and James Frey is a fantastic writer, truth or not the book tells a wonderful true story of how I feel about the rehab-AA B.S.that is stuffed down anybody who is a alcoholic/addict and the people who love and care about are also fed the same B.S..I think AA should make this book THE BIG BOOK as well as the book Frey's brother gave him in the story, made to replace the 12 steps.I have sent a copy to my alcoholic husband in hopes he to will see the light after 8 rehabs and over 500,000.00 spent on his recovery.Lost his white collar job,house,family,and health.Looking forward to more books by James Frey
I Felt Cheated.......2007-08-29
This book was very powerful. I could not put it down and recommended it to many of my friends. I also tried to get my son (who suffers from addictions) to read it. It was well written and my heart went out to Mr. Frey. But...then I learned that it was not all true. Part of it was fabricated and exaggerated. I really felt let down and disappointed. Mr. Frey should have been honest from the beginning. I give it a 5 star rating but as a fictional story, not a nonfictional documentary.
Like but dislike.......2007-08-23
Read the book, it is good cant argue with that but it is not exceptional, it doesn't really leave anything behind. But good non the less and if you haven't read many true stories about drugs than this one is better than most.
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James Pinocchio wakes up in the back of a New York City taxi with a combination lock piercing his left ear and no idea how it got there, or what the combination is.
The following day, his wealthy parents decide they've had enough, and they send him off to Sleepy Hollow, the famous rehab facility in Upstate New York. While there, Mr. Pinocchio meets all sorts of Fascinating Characters, one more Unbelievable and Amazing than the next, and they challenge him to confront his Deepest, Darkest Fears. The experience leads Mr. Pinocchio to the very edges of despair, but at a critical juncture he finds hope in the arms of a Bad Woman.
The love affair ends tragically, alas, and, like many parts of Mr. Pinocchio's story, stretches credibility to the breaking point, but the harrowing adventure -- which involves a great deal of pain, a smattering of dirty sex, and endless amounts of girlish crying -- eventually leads to Redemption and Healing. But not for Mr. Pinocchio
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I wan't my brain cells back.......2007-08-27
It's pathetic that someone wasted their time writing this book to bash A Million Little Pieces. My ex is in prison for meth related crimes and this book has been crucial to his recovery. It has helped our communication, and whether James' story is exaggerated or not, it's one of the best and most helpful books I've ever read and recommend it to everyone. This book however is a complete waste of time and brain cells, and sad that the author makes a living talking trash about others.
Poor Taste.......2007-04-05
Anything that parodies the story of a drug addict is an insensitive callous assault on common human decency. They might have just as well brought in the cripple and cancer patient too. A poorly written waste of time. They should be sued for the cover.
wow........2007-02-09
this has got to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. everyone should leaves James Frey alone. a million little pieces was a great book. and just because he embellished doesn't make it any less of a great book.
good for the funny bone.......2006-07-12
if you've read a million little pieces and have a decent sense of humor, you'll be tickled by this book, which is quality parody--better than i expected. i gave it three stars because i did, however, bore of it in the middle (you can only last so long reading james frey's borderline annoying angst multiplied times 1000 with pointlessness--even if it is hilarious--added in) and ended up only skimming through the rest, once in a while stopping on a random page to laugh. still, from the supposed "acclaim" on the first page and back of the book to the author's acknowledgments, it had me chortling aloud in the bookstore (these turned out to be my favorite part of the book).
Laugh Out Loud Funny........2006-05-14
James Pinnochio's hysterical parody of James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" will cause any reader who followed the Frey controversy to collapse in giggles. Starting with the cover art of a baby's foot covered in ice cream sprinkles, and extending through every Frey nuance, "A Million Little Lies" is just one funny book.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good laugh.
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Late night shots ring out in tranquil Hermosa Beach, California, heralding the mysterious assassination of a nondescript pussycat. Will the trail lead to an enigmatic code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci? Will a breathless race through the streets of Los Angeles lead back to Hermosa, where an explosive truth, contemplated for centuries, is finally unveiled as the Formula for God - reconciling religion's compatibility with physics? Well, no to the first question, and as for the second question, well, I guess it's all a question of faith. Nevertheless, conquer your own fear and loathing of fake memoirs and take a wild ride with the most original voice to come along in years. Truth is stranger than fiction; so much so, that sometimes it has to be toned down and just called fiction.
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Oddly familiar to a previous life..........2006-08-21
I can certainly relate to Python Bonkers... I'd create a pseudonym as well. This tale is frighteningly familiar to not only me, but to scores of beaten souls who have labored in an environment led by a King of Hubris. That "boss," what a dolt... we all know him well, at some point in our career we've all worked for him... or his kind. Thanks for the memories, but I'd just assume forget that part of my life.
The answer to life, the universe and everything?.......2006-08-02
The dedication in this book is: To Mother Nature (wink).
If you have read the book and understand this, then you will understand life, the universe and everything. Sort of. But that's the point, when you think some religion/philosophy/ideology has all the answers -- then that's when it has none of them.
In the small part of the book that mentions this stuff, the author claims it is something that he came up with in an hour or so -- bull. This is a carefully thought out presentation of something philosophers and physicists alike call Determinism and although not the theme around which the book revolves that's where it all leads.
I disagree that this book is anti-religious. All it's trying to say, I suppose, is that once people believe they have all the answers is about when they start aiming the jet plane for the skyscraper. Many people don't like to think about their relation to the physical world and when they do try to contemplate the big picture and life after death and all that business, for many, it is easier to just phone it in. So they stand in the back of their church or place of worship and think that they've got it covered, why bother to think about it any further? Then there are others who believe so deeply that they block out all other rational thought.
Religion does a lot of good but when people start thinking only in terms of absolutes then they figure that they have all the answers and everybody else is simply wrong. That was the point that I got from it.
So when he brings in physics it's just a way to take a physical view of existence to its extreme. Where does it end? How did it begin? What's it all about? That kind of thing. It's just something fun to ponder. Hell, every religion plugs in these answers every day, and that seems to be okay with many who swallow it whole. For all the rest, rational thinking, even in a comical, crazy novel, should not get so easily dismissed.
A freaking skyrocket Babies.......2006-05-11
A freaking skyrocket across the sky (or your mind). Madness. Wackiness. And many, many things you've never thought of, that's for sure. I've never read anything like this. I actually reread it after once again rereading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (I know, I'm sick, but I just get a kick out of it) and it's one of the few books I would put up in that category. Ostensibly we are following the adventures of low-level journalist, Python Bonkers, as he attempts to obtain an interview of Willie Nelson and save his magazine career. But his life is not so simple. Like a lion tamer he has to use a "poking stick" to keep the drunks at his beach house in line. His Dilbert-like office is filled with looney tunes who believe in social Darwinism. His sub-atomic approach to reality, as a passenger in a particular slice of time in a finite universe has never quite been explored like this (probably be a good discussion topic in a physics class). If you have a sense of humor, about class, religion, the universe and yourself, you will enjoy this hysterical book (with or without your Depends; you'll understand once you read it).
This book is the cult classic that nobody knows about yet.......2006-03-29
I predict this will end up being the type of book passed around college dorms and otherwise disseminated, by word of mouth, for years to come. It's one of those books where you say to your friends, "you've got to read this crazy thing, you're going to get a kick out of it." The rhythm and timing of the prose is excellent for the purposes at hand and all of the sentences are carefully balanced and considered, which is essential to humor writing. This book puts the comic in comic novels. And, as far as fake memoirs go, this is tops.
It opens up with some bizarre back and forth exchanges between Bonkers and one of the characters from the book who hijacks the manuscript and tries to publish it behind his back. Then it directs you to the back of the book for a brief discussion of Determinism. Then back to the front of the book. It is a peculiar opening, funny, but I'm not sure a different editor editing this book wouldn't have worked in a more traditional opening. But without experiments where would we be? Stuck with every other assembly line piece of ___ . . . Maybe a million little pieces of them for that matter. Aside from this, I'm going two thumbs up despite the price, after all, it was twice as humorous as the last comic tome I delved into.
The Dr. is dead. Long live the Dr........2006-03-17
I opened up this book and the first thing that I saw was a testimonial quote: "Only a lunatic would read this book."
I'm just the guy to do it, I thought to myself.
This thing will make you laugh a lot. It's like taking mescaline and that's probably not a bad idea while reading it - or, at least, some sort of herbal redirection. I've never laughed my ass off while reading a book. I mean, bent over laughing and leading to a laughing jag. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Maybe I need to be committed or something, I'm sure others won't get it, but this thing made me piss my pants. Around every corner, or should I say on every page, something jumped out and before I knew it, there I was, bent over laughing again. Jesus. Once you get a taste of that, you keep on moving forward, because now you want it again, like a junky. And then it delivers. I plowed through the thing in a few short days. The opening 10 or 15 pages, I wasn't sure where he was going but it was amusing enough and then once it got in the groove it was a non-stop riot. Who is this guy? I wonder if it's a famous writer having fun on the side?
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How do you measure a cartoon's popularity? Sure Close to Home is syndicated in nearly 700 daily and Sunday newspapers and is featured on a successful line of greeting cards, mugs, and calendars. A recent international licensing deal will bring Close to Home products to the UK, Ireland, and the European Union, too. But the true measure of a comic panel's popularity is how often it is posted on a refrigerator, cubicle, break room bulletin board, or office door. By that standard, Close to Home wins the comic panel popularity contest hands down.
Close to Home captures the humor in all facets of life. From home to hospitals, from classrooms to courtrooms, from boardrooms to backyards¿there's a Close to Home panel that hits us where we live and work and play.
A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home features hilarious panels first published in newspapers in the year 2000, the year of the Y2K scare that never materialized. Of course, that's just the kind of thing you'd expect from a Close to Home world.
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Hilarious!.......2007-08-26
John McPherson's material is great - be prepared to laugh! He has great creativity and quite an imagination!
A Million Litle Pieces of close to home: Closa to Home Collection.......2007-01-10
I Could not stop laughing from start to finish! Great Book, Great Price and Quick delivery! Thanks
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A Million Little Pieces
Manufacturer: Anchor Books
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2 Book Set By James Frey; Million Little Pieces; My Friend Leonard.
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A Million Little Pieces
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Sarajevo, Exodus of a City (Kodansha Globe)
Dzevad Karahasan
Manufacturer: Kodansha America
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Bizarre, yet moving memoir.......2000-10-14
I must agree with most everything I've read about Dzevad Karahasan's book. This is not what one would expect to read from someone living in a city under siege, especially given other facts of personal tragedies he mentions in the book.
Karahasan, is a Bosnian Muslim that is married to a Serbian woman. As the city is getting shelled and is occupied by Serbian forces, one is thrown off balance by Karahasan's cool recollection of events and anecdotes. Of particular interest is his exchange with a French humanitarian worker. It just shows how two people, through their individual circumstances, can have a difficult time understanding one another.
This book is frighteningly honest. The author is never shy about his disenchantment or his occasional thoughts of suicide. Even with that, this is not a depressing book. More than anything, I think it shows how war just sucks the soul and life out of some people. Its like they don't even have the energy to be angry at their aggressors anymore. They just want out.
One aspect I certainly wasn't expecting when I picked up this book was the literary criticism. Karahasan was a professor at the University of Sarajevo who taught drama and literature. The book criticizes much modern literature as empty academia. He asserts that while war is destruction and chaos, that things like literature are one of the few civilizing factors in wartime, and that writers have a lot of responsibility.
The first chapter is quite awkward, but after that, the book really picks up. At 123 pages, this book is an easy read. For a portrait of life during wartime and for a heavy handed criticism of much of what passes for literature today, this is an excellent book. Even saying what I've said about it, this description doesn't fully capture the scope of this book. It is very hard to describe fully what the author is trying to accomplish, because he goes about it in an odd manner. That being said, pick up this short little book and be prepared to be moved.
Stark and moving.......2000-09-14
I read this book a few years ago, so forgive me if I don't remember all the pertinent details. I can say that this book was incredibly moving with its vivid descriptions of Sarajevo as it once was and as it was during the war. Sarajevo as a city was a victim, and its people were onlookers suffering along with the city. The book is surprising in that it tells the story of the city from the perspective of a resident. One would expect a book of this type (and the time frame in which is was written) to be more a memoir about the way of life that was lost or about the horrors of war. No, the book is more an elegy for the city of Sarajevo and a voice of hope for what the city could be again.
This is one of the books that is not easily described but must be read and absorbed personally to fully appreciate its craft.
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This is a hopeful account of the potential for organizational change and improvement within government. Despite the mantra that people resist change, it is possible to effect meaningful reform in a large bureaucracy. In Unleashing Change, public management expert Steven Kelman presents a blueprint for accomplishing such improvements, based on his experience orchestrating procurement reform in the 1990s. Kelman's focuses on making change happen on the front lines, not just getting it announced by senior policymakers. He argues that frequently there will be a constituency for change within government organizations. The role for leaders is not to force change on the unwilling but to unleash the willing, and to persist long enough for the change to become institutionalized. Drawing on the author's own personal experience and extensive research among frontline civil servants, as well as literature in organization theory and psychology, Unleashing Change presents an approach for improving agency performance from soup to nutsmixing theory with practice. Its analysis is innovative and empirically rich. Kelman's conclusions challenge conventional notions about achieving reform in large organizations and mark a major advance in theories of organizational change. His lessons will be of interest not only to scholars interested in improving the performance of the public sector, but for anyone struggling to manage a large organization.
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An ambitious blueprint for accomplishing goals in reform.......2005-12-04
Public management expert Steven Kelman presents Unleashing Change: A Study Of Organizational Renewal In Government, an ambitious blueprint for accomplishing goals in reform, based heavily on his involvement in federal procurement reform in the 1990s. Chapters address the smoothest way to introduce change, how change effort feeds on itself in theory and evidence, applying models and determinants, methodological considerations, and much more. Blending abstract or mathematical models with practical-minded situations and responses, Unleashing Change is a valuable resource and reference to consult when attempting large-scale bureaucratic reorganizations, from corporate hierarchies to the government of nations.
A must-read for any change leader.......2005-10-17
This is a must-read for anyone trying to lead change in a bureaucracy, whether government, business, non-profit, military, or education. Kelman's insights into why change is difficult, and his idea of unleashing change vs coercing it, are brilliant, down-to-earth, and totally practical.
The change Kelman led resulted in the federal government substituting a new informal rule ("Get a good deal for the government.") for thousands of pages of rules and specifications that made buying t-shirts and ketchup just like buying software systems and fighter planes.
His special magic was to enlist the front-line buyers who knew how messed-up the system was. He gives them credit for the change they played a central role in effecting. His only sin is excessive modesty about his own role in a revolutionary and successful change effort.
Ugh--a study of procurement reform by the one who created it.......2005-10-14
Okay, what's the least likely study to be credible? How about one from the guy who led procurement reform under Clinton that uses a survey of his friends in the procurement offices that he once led? Kelman doesn't ask the actual people who still buy stuff in government--the front-line staffers, FEMA people, etc., who make the decisions. Rather, he asks the people who are in the procurement offices. What's the bias here? Who's most likely to say procurement reform was successful than the people who are administering it? And what if the request for interviews come from the guy who just might be their boss again under the next Democratic president? Although Kelman uses lots of statistical analysis to make his points, it's garbage in/garbage out. The data on which the book is based are flawed, self-interested, and not particularly reliable. Had Kelman wanted an honest study of the impact of his reforms, he would have done the interviews of procurement officers AND their customers, and would not have told anyone that he was behind the survey. But, near as I can tell, the survey came straight from Kelman, was clearly identified as his. Even here, however, readers get little information on just how the survey was conducted--when was the survey done? where is the questionnaire? what were the overall results? Nothing here. Kelman fails the basic social science test of transparency.
Wish it had been better. Kelman is capable of many things, but statistical social science is not one of them.
Kelman Hits the Mark.......2005-08-09
Kelman's study of change within the federal acquisition corps is a must read for all public policy academics and practitioners. This study clearly articulates the unique challenges and pressures that front-line acquisition specialists face as they go about their day-to-day tasks of spending billions of dollars through the procurement process.
During his tenure as the Clinton Administration's procurement czar, Kelman arguably brought more positive change to the federal acquisition process than did the combined efforts of his predecessors and successors. The book is much more than a chronicle of his experiences during his tenure. In a way that transcends party politics, Kelman has contributed significantly to the scant body of literature on change in the federal government. Moreover, hs has provided scholars and practitioners a clear roadmap for how to effect positive change in the future.
This book should be part of every federal executives' library as it will help them to better understand the value and impact of the mid-level federal career employee.
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Title: Unleashing social psychology on public administration.(Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Renewal in Government)(Book review)
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The Whooping Crane: Help Save This Endangered Species! (Saving Endangered Species)
Alison Imbriaco
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Return of the Whooping Crane (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)
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Fanny McFancy: A Passion for Fashion
Patricia Thackray
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Fanny McFancy A Passion for Fashion.......2000-03-01
This is an excellent book for everyone. My 5 year old loves it! It has wonderful rhymes and a good message at the end.
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The Hunt for the Whooping Cranes: A Natural History Detective Story
J. J. McCoy
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ASIN: 0839735006 |
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A mystery story.......2000-01-05
This book has everything- a mystery, a valiant search, a happy ending. It is the story of the search for the nesting site of the whooping crane. It took 17 years to find the site, the discovery of which assures the world that this site will not be destroyed and insures that these birds may survive the impact of an ever growing human population. We owe so much to these brave men who worked so hard to find where these glorious birds nested. The book is well written and illustrated.
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The Hunt for the Whooping Cranes
J.J. McCoy
Manufacturer: William Morrow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 9997506898 |
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Song for the Whooping Crane
Eileen Spinelli
Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 080285172X |
Book Description
In the far North When October spills
Across the ice
And the wind sweeps high
The wild whooping cranes fly.
In this poetic celebration of one of North America's most rare and beautiful birds, Eileen Spinelli lovingly introduces young readers to the seasonal rhythms and unique grace of these endangered creatures. Artist Elsa Warnick's delicate watercolors exquisitely capture the varied habitats and behaviors of the whooping cranes.
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