Books with author Dan Elliott

David L. Elliott's "My First Fish" tells the story of how a young boy learns a very important fishing lesson. This poignant and beautifully illustrated story uses fishing to demonstrate several very important life lessons. Each book also provides a dedication/thank you page for readers to share the "secret of the small hooks." The second half of the book contains very basic fishing tips for those who are interested in catching their first fish. The author, David L. Elliott, lives in North Carolina with his wife Kim, and daughters Sarah Grace and Erin Elizabeth. He is a graduate of both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke Law School. He is an avid fisherman who loves to teach others how to fish. More importantly, he is passionate about learning and sharing life lessons. This is David's first book for "children."

Here is an excerpt from the book that will probably give you a better general idea of what it is about: “I didnt write the life Ive lived; my life wrote me. I am not a writer; I am a piece of literature. My skin cells turn like the pages in a book. My eyes are the covers to my life, like a library of references. My words are spoken in fonts and letters and punctuation and faulty grammar. My mouth is like a typewriter that is slowly running out of ink. The paper is jammed and I am not quite sure how to fix it." The Contents of a Searching Mind is the story of someone searching for what it truly means to be alive.

This work is suitable for ages 8-14. Medicine was a mysterious art in the Middle Ages and had not yet benefited from the scientific discoveries we take for granted today. This astonishing new book illustrates how death and incurable disease were considered a common part of medieval life. Young readers will be fascinated by the history of the Black Death, or the Plague, which killed millions of people in Europe, and why medical treatments in the Middle Ages were often worse than the disease. The topics include: a timeline of medical changes through the Middle Ages; common medieval diseases and their causes, such as smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and leprosy; The Back Plague and the modern explanation for it; the Four Humors; operations and treatments such as bloodletting, cupping, cauterising; medicine makers such as apothecaries and housewives; famous doctors such as Hippocrates, Galen, Rhazes and Avicenna; and women's place in medicine.