Books with author Betsy Bowen

In the northwoods, most of the year is spent preparing for the longest and most demanding season: winter. Families of people and animals alike begin their gathering for the cold months as early as the start of spring. Much needs to be done - planting and gardening, fishing and berry picking, chopping and piling wood, harvesting wild rice, and searching for warm boots and socks. Like the firewood and jarred rhubarb, summer memories are stored so that stargazing and fireflies are remembered on the coldest of winter days. In this companion to her memorable debut, Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year, Betsy Bowen delights readers with a warm regard for the woods and its inhabitants. Gathering, illustrated anew in vibrantly colored woodcuts, is a celebration of the changing seasons laced with a special reverence for the magic and mystery of winter and the first big snow of the year.

In this companion to Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book Betsy Bowen again captures the vibrant magic in each northwoods day through effortless prose and colorful woodcuts. While the canoe waits beneath the heavy snow and the river freezes over, bears turn in for long winter naps and people spend time reading by the fire or bundled up in layers. But when spring comes, it’s time for kayaking, fishing, and listening to the quiet pond sounds of the new season. All of this and more is celebrated in Bowen’s warm and unusual alphabet book that introduces children to the cyclical rhythms of life in our country’s northern states.

Cale is a young man living in Utah with his artificially intelligent, technologically advanced home. He owns a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company. But that doesn't matter to him. At 19, with both parents dead, there isn't much left for him to care about anymore.He not only struggles with his father's recent death and his horrible feelings of loneliness, not to mention to insecurities of any normal young man, but must also solve the riddles surrounding these bizarre dreams.

Cale is a young man living in Utah with his artificially intelligent, ghighly technologically advanced home. He owns a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company. But that doesn't matter to him. At 19, with both parents dead, there isn't much left for him to care about anymore.He not only struggles with his father's recent dath and his horrible feelings of loneliness, not to mention to insecurities of any normal young man, but must also solve the riddles surrounding these bizzare dreams.