Latest Instagram Photos
       
|
|
|
|
|
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Some Book Reviewers Just GET IT
Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them
Photographs by Melissa Farlow. 2015. 208pp. $19.99 hc. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 978-0-544-39294-6. Grades 4-12
This book tells of the
plight of wild horses in America. Beginning with the history of
prehistoric horses to the efforts to protect wild horses from being
driven off public lands in the 1970s, Farley provides
a look into the world of
wild horses and their treatment. Farley explains how the government has
passed laws to protect these horses and then systematically has
broken its own laws or has twisted them
to suit the needs of others.
Recommended
School Library Connection suite at
www.librariesunlimited.com.
Labels: books, creative nonfiction, horses, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, leadership, librarians, libraries, Melissa Farlow, terri farley, Wild at Heart, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 2:53 PM 1 comments  
Sunday, August 11, 2013 Teachers & Librarians: Free books for you  Dear Teachers and Librarians,
Multiple copies of the Phantom Stallion and Wild Horse Island foreign language
editions pictured here are sitting, unloved, in boxes.
The French translations are soft cover and I have no Spanish editions, but the books shown above are
Education Tip: When I do school visits, I bring along American originals
and foreign editions. Then, because cover art differs so from country to
country, I ask students to compare/contrast cultural perceptions of today's
American West. Even the little ones love looking for clues
to make matches.
If you’d like to check your libraries for HarperCollins copies
you already have, these books are, from left:
TOP Row: Phantom Stallion 2, 3 and Wild Horse Island 1
MIDDLE Row: Phantom Stallion 3, 4, 8, Wild Horse Island 2
BOTTOM row: Phantom
Stallion 4, 6, 5, 6
Feel free to shoot me a personal email farleyterri@aol.com from your school or library email address if you’re interested.
Have a wonderful school year,
Terri
Labels: foreign language editions, librarians, libraries, phantom stallion, teachers, wild horse island Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 2:17 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Love Letter to Libraries Dear Readers, When I heard that this library was in danger of closing, I decided to write about it for the SAVE SCHABERG LIBRARY's blog. I know lots of you love libraries as much as I do, so I thought I'd share. Best, Terri Schaberg was my husband’s boyhood library, the first place Cory was allowed to walk alone. Cocky with independence, he’d go striding down Alameda to Vera, then cross the Roosevelt School playground to Euclid Avenue just because he could. Sure, he came home with an armload of books, quickly read so that he could make that trip again, but this small library gave him more than the roots of learning, it gave him the hidden gift of independence. We live in Nevada, now, but it’s no coincidence we bought a house across the street from a rural library.  I discovered how closely my children resembled their father the day a librarian brought our dogs home. Rookie and Rosie had escaped their kennel and ended their frolic at the Verdi library. I was surprised and pleased that they knew where to go for help. Then the librarian confided that all of the hours of exercise I thought my dogs and kids were getting -- well, those ended at the library, too. After darting down our dirt road and across the street, my kids went in to read. Rookie and Rosie, collie and German Shepherd, provided the Verdi equivalent of the New York City Public Library lions. My children’s love of books was no surprise, but they were both a bit shy and I was delighted that they’d talked adults into keeping their visits secret. As a pudgy girl with glasses and disabling asthma, I rarely rode bikes and played street ball with friends. I was a poor athlete, the classic “last chosen” for school teams, but I was a star at the Paramount public library. Within days of crossing the library threshold, Nancy Drew mysteries and horse books literally had my name on them, because checking out a book meant signing a card that lived inside it. One day a librarian told me, as she stamped and stacked my books, that my name should be Phillipa, because it meant lover of horses. I was stunned. She knew I loved horses? Names had meanings? Fifty years later, I still feel the elation and wonder. Cory grew up to be a Best-of-Gannett newspaper columnist. I grew up to write books for young readers. My daughter will soon teach high school English and my son writes brilliantly on popular culture. Books gave us affection for stories and words, but small libraries like Schaberg gave us the hidden gifts of independence, communication and self-worth. A seed that grows a thousand blooms is rare, but neighborhood libraries are just that, growing readers and thinking human beings by the bushel. We owe it to our world to keep them alive. Labels: libraries, save Schaberg Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 10:06 PM 0 comments
Thursday, April 15, 2010 Librarians' Wishes Are Horses  photos by Cat KindsfatherLibrary budgets slashed! Librarians fired! Libraries closed! As a mother, writer and reader, these decisions make me heart sore and angry. One of the reasons I bought my house is because it's a short walk down a dirt road and across the street to the nearest library; it's now open 10 hours a week. Although there's not enough money for libraries, America's wild horses are pursued in multi-million dollar helicopter roundups, then confined in dirty, deadly feedlot style corrals.  The price to catch and process ONE horse -- $3,000 Proposed budget increase to BLM's wild horse program -- $12 million Price of buying new lands to put Western mustangs on-- $42 million dollars Most taxpayers would rather see these funds spent on books, librarians, and the improved future of children. Librarians: what could YOU do with a few wild horses worth of Federal funding?  Labels: budget, federal funds, libraries, mustangs, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 11:20 PM 2 comments
|
|
|
Home | Books | The Author | Connect | Education | Wild Horses © Terri Farley |
