Category: Family

Moo Goo Gai Pan: The Story Of An Heroic Young Goose

    (With Lots of New Words for Young Readers to Discover & Delight In)  Our Tale Begins A long time ago in China there lived in Fujian Province an extroverted young bird named Grimaldi Goose. He was a keenly intelligent, exceptionally sociable gosling, equally comfortable in the air, on land, and in the water. …

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Melvin the Magnificent

Melvin the Magnificent The Tale of a Valiant Canadian Mouse – And magnificently we will flow into the mystic. Van Morrison Chapter One: A Young Rodent’s Dream Once upon a time there lived a tiny grey mouse named Melvin. Melvin resided with his family in Mississauga, Canada. They were fortunate rodents. They inhabited a pleasant …

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Boys in Trouble: An American Epidemic

  Boys in Trouble I WANT a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one.                              – Lord Byron, “Don Juan” For many years I have directed one-week immersion workshops in …

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