Books with author John Hutcheon

Avoid mouse traps, keep clear of cats, and never go to the seashore without your mother and father. Along with the dangerous currents of the mighty sea, there are foxes, wild cats and hawks searching for a tasty meal of small mice. These were strong warnings, but the lure of the seashore was overwhelming, and Bertie disobeyed his parents. From his cozy bungalow on a farm near the beaches of cape cod, the young mouse secretly set out by himself to explore the seashore. His first encounter was a wise and friendly old seagull named Sebastian, who agreed to take Bertie on a tour. Here begins the little mouse’s adventure told 70 years ago to the author, John Hutchinson, by his mother, Harriet Jaqueth Fitz Hutchinson, to whom this book is dedicated. This 90 page hard cover book with a trim size of 7 by 10 inches, was professionally produced for children ages 8 to 12 years old.

Avoid mouse traps, keep clear of cats, and never go to the seashore without your mother and father. Along with the dangerous currents of the mighty sea, there are foxes, wild cats and hawks searching for a tasty meal of small mice. These were strong warnings, but the lure of the seashore was overwhelming, and Bertie disobeyed his parents. From his cozy bungalow on a farm near the beaches of Cape Cod, the young mouse secretly set out by himself to explore the seashore. His first encounter was a wise and friendly old seagull named Sebastian, who agreed to take Bertie on a tour. Here begins the little mouse's adventure told 70 years ago to the author, John Hutchinson, by his mother, Harriet Jaqueth Fitz Hutchinson, to whom this book is dedicated. This 90 page hard cover book with a trim size of 7 by 10 inches, was professionally produced for children ages 8 to 12 years old. The design and typesetting were done by Hummingbird Publishing, and it is printed on 87# 128gsm Sword Gloss paper by Total Printing Systems, Newton, IL. The author is currently working on his second book that tells of Bertie's search for pirate treasure on Skull Island.

Young Drasko is happy working with his father in the Sarajevo market. Then war encroaches. Drasko must run the family flower stand alone.One morning, the bakery is bombed and twenty-two people are killed. The next day, a cellist walks to the bombsite and plays the most heartbreaking music Drasko can imagine. The cellist returns for twenty-two days, one day for each victim of the bombing. Inspired by the musician’s response, Drasko finds a way to help make Sarajevo beautiful again.Based on real events of the Bosnian War, award-winning songwriter and storyteller John McCutcheon tells the uplifting story of the power of beauty in the face of violence and suffering. The story comes to life with the included CD in which cellist Vedran Smailović accompanies McCutcheon and performs the melody that he played in 1992 to honor those who died in the Sarajevo mortar blast.

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“Hullo! Markworth. How lucky! Why you are just the man I want; you’re ubiquitous, who’d have thought of seeing you in town?” said Tom Hartshorne, of the —th Dragoons, cheerily, as he sauntered late one summer afternoon into a private billiard-room in Oxford-street, where a tall, dark-complexioned, and strikingly-handsome man, was knocking the balls about in his shirt-sleeves, and trying all sorts of fancy shots against the cushions—The sole occupant of the room was he, with the exception of the marker, who was looking on in a desultory sort of way at the strokes of the player from his thronelike chair underneath the scoring board.

“I want do d’an’ma!” This sudden and unexpected exclamation, uttered as it was in a shrill little voice like that of a piping bullfinch, and coming from nowhere in particular, as far as he could make out, for he had fancied himself all alone on the platform, made the tall railway porter almost jump out of his skin, as he expressed it, startling him out of his seven senses.

Excerpt from Caught in a Trap, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelHullol Tom, by all that's holy And what brings you to Babylon I left Boulogne last week, and ran up to see what the 'boys' were after; so here I am, quite at your service. What can I do for you, Tom Are you hard up, in a row, or run away with your neigh bour's wife? Unbosom yourself, cam ma'o.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Caught in a Trap, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelHullol Tom, by all that's holy And what brings you to Babylon I left Boulogne last week, and ran up to see what the 'boys' were after; so here I am, quite at your service. What can I do for you, Tom Are you hard up, in a row, or run away with your neigh bour's wife? Unbosom yourself, cam ma'o.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

“Hullo! Markworth. How lucky! Why you are just the man I want; you’re ubiquitous, who’d have thought of seeing you in town?” said Tom Hartshorne, of the —th Dragoons, cheerily, as he sauntered late one summer afternoon into a private billiard-room in Oxford-street, where a tall, dark-complexioned, and strikingly-handsome man, was knocking the balls about in his shirt-sleeves, and trying all sorts of fancy shots against the cushions—The sole occupant of the room was he, with the exception of the marker, who was looking on in a desultory sort of way at the strokes of the player from his thronelike chair underneath the scoring board.