Bøger af Glenn Carley

Enter The Long Story of Mount Pootzah! Mount Pester has disappeared into the imagination and the Prince of Pesterville is rescued. He returns to the little town of Pesterville to excavate the PesterPop Factory and continue production of those scrumptious candies known as PesterPops. But now Mount Pootzah, the mysterious volcano behind Mount Pester, belches smoke and threatens the safety of the town. Once again our four reluctant Ditch Diggers travel on a quest to solve the terrible mystery of Mount Pootzah. Some magical creatures wish to help out along the way---but others have something different in mind! This sequel to The Long Story of Mount Pester is a companion read-aloud that will delight children and the young-at-heart alike.

The Long Story of Mount Pester invites readers to join the author and illustrator on an epic journey into imagination. A timeless read-aloud which speaks to young readers' fascination with magical creatures along with the supreme importance of candy, The Long Story of Mount Pester is a book that brings equal reading pleasure to parents, children, teachers and caregivers. The Prince of Pesterville has disappeared and four reluctant Ditch Diggers journey across a strange land to stop the volcano Mount Pester from erupting and covering the little town of Pesterville with lava. HoneyMoon, a large lizard, Majah, his sweet friend and a lizard of equal proportion, and Neebelius, a scientific boy, want nothing to do with the adventure. Their companion Rudy, a chatty, rambunctious girl-squirrel, has something different in mind. Along the tenacious way, loyalty, trust, patience and love prevail.

Set in landscapes both terrible and fantastic-yet uncomfortably close to home-Jimmy Crack Corn: A Novel in C Minor recounts the journeys of exhausted urban warrior and DoGooder Jimmy the Bleeder as he explores what it means to be good at something you did not set out to do. Along the way, innocence is remembered, transformed, oppressed, stolen, and restored in both self and other. Inspired by the rhythms of the poignant 19th-century folk song, Jimmy Crack Corn is in the end both an entertaining read and an acute meditation on the preservation of meaning in our everyday lives."Like the folk song on which it draws, Glenn Carley's latest novel lays bare line after line of deeply felt, often achingly familiar truth. In Jimmy Crack Corn, Carley assembles a chorus of vivid, precisely imagined characters grappling with questions of freedom and innocence as only a writer with four decades of social work experience can. Still, the plot, which traces the lived rhythms of 'DoGooder Jimmy the Bleeder, ' plays second fiddle to Carley's full-bodied, typically playful and always poignant language to produce a raw, warm, and lyrical work." ---In the Hills Magazine

"Libretto form meant to be read or chanted as operatic recitative in a style called sing/speak"--Page 4 of cover.