Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens Her husband and teenage daughter looked on incredulously as coop sketches and chicken-raising books filled their New England home. But when the chicks arrived, the whole family fell in love with the
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| Title | : | Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (264 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451698704 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-19 |
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Editorial : "Lauren Scheuer is a writer of immense warmth who beautifully captures the quirks, comedy, and drama of backyard chickens. You will love Lucy, Hatsy, and the other amusing characters of her flock. You will love Marky the dog and Danny the husband. But most of all you will love Lauren and her gentle and generous soul. This remarkable interspecies family will make you laugh, will touch your heart, and -- yes, believe it -- just might make you cry. Once Upon a Flock is a celebration of all that is sweet and simple and pure in life." (John Grogan, author of Marley & Me and The Longest Trip Home)
“This book is like a cool breath of fresh air on a hot summer day. It’s full of delight, whimsy, joy, and hilarity, yet it goes much deeper than that. Each member of this little flock has her own personality traits, quirks, preferences, and logic. Some are compassionate and nurturing, others are competitive and mean-spirited. With her photos and drawings throughout the
This delightful memoir about life with a spirited, sometimes reckless flock of backyard chickens—inspired by the author’s popular blog, “Scratch and Peck”—includes color photographs and imaginative illustrations throughout.
When longtime illustrator and lover of power tools Lauren Scheuer was looking for a project, she got the idea to raise backyard chickens. Her husband and teenage daughter looked on incredulously as coop sketches and chicken-raising books filled their New England home. But when the chicks arrived, the whole family fell in love with the bundles of fluff and the wild adventures began.
Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens stars Scheuer’s backyard chickens—with their big personalities, friendships, rivalries, and secrets—and the flock’s guardian, Marky the terrier. The flock includes Hatsy, the little dynamo; Lil’White, the deranged and twisted Buff Orpington; Pigeon,
The expedition that is the trip these people take is a canoe and hiking adventure through the forest and streams of upper Michigan in 1844, but it is also a life journey for each of the characters in the book. Editor "Vic" Chavez (forgive the informality here, but I among friends), who was a year ahead of Pete in law school, agreed to let me share this with the judicial family Pete loves.
"Prescott is a small town with a big heart," he writes. It was set mostly in a safe house, which the heroine was not allowed to exit until her departure from the country. The thing is, it was all beautifully written, which actually left me slightly frustrated about the mess I felt was made at the beginning. "I missed hearing you say my name."
"Aubrey," I said smiling.. Yet the author believes that the 10-year-old kid, who wanted to play for the New York Yankees and once threw a no-hitter for his high school baseball team, lucked his way into college, law school and the court. When enc
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