Books with author Howard Norman

With spare grace and lively wit, acclaimed author Howard Norman chronicles the hilarious antics of a provocative troublemaker. Whether cheating in a sleepwalking contest, teaching the shut-eye dance to ducks, or halting a wedding by transforming the groom into a kingfisher, Trickster sets the world askew. Like trickster figures the world round, this Algonquian mischief-maker prods our imagination and makes us laugh deep in our hearts. In forty-two luminescent, richly detailed paintings, Tom Pohrt follows Trickster’s trail—across frozen lakes and thawing marshes—on a journey that carries us from trouble, to laughter, and, finally, to wisdom.

With spare grace & lively wit, acclaimed author Howard Norman offers readers seven Algonquian stories of the outrageous antics of the singular maverick called Trickster. When Trickster sets out walking, mischief is never far behind. Whether he is cheating in a sleepwalking contest, teaching the shut-eye dance to ducks, or halting a wedding by transforming the groom into a kingfisher bird, Trickster sets the world askew. Tom Pohrt's richly detailed paintings invite us to follow where Trickster leads -- across frozen lakes & thawing marshes, into ash storms & lightning-singed tree stumps, on a journey that carries us from trouble, to laughter, & finally, to wisdom. Covers Cree & Ojibwa Indians. Story notes. Juvenile audiences.

We know it's a big universe and we know it's an old universe. But how big and how old? We are not good at imagining the numbers that tell us the age and size. Our brains don't handle big numbers like millions, billions, trillions and the even bigger "illions." However, if we relate these numbers to things we can imagine, we have a much better chance of comprehending the size and age these numbers represent.Here are some interesting and fun ways we can do that. Amusing illustrations tell the story of our universe, our planet, and our place in the cosmos.

MP3 CD Format National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another provocative, haunting novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost.Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It s been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. Simon s widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel after revealing that the deed contains a ghost clause, an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a recently purchased home turns out to be haunted.In fact, Simon finds himself still at home: Every waking moment, I m astonished I have any consciousness ... What am I to call myself now, a revenant? He spends time replaying his marriage in his own mind, as if in poignant reel-to-reel, while also engaging in occasionally intimate observation of the new homeowners. But soon the crisis of a missing child, a local eleven-year-old, threatens the tenuous domestic equilibrium, as the weight of the case falls to Zachary, a rookie private detective with the Green Mountain Agency.The Ghost Clause is a heartrending, affirming portrait of two marriages one in its afterlife, one new and erotically charged and of the Vermont village life that sustains and remakes them.