Books with author Palmer Cox

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

It is the start of a new school year in Kendal, Jamaica, and Josh is determined not to be late. He sets off in good time - but so does his beloved bull-calf, Boy, who follows him everywhere like a dog. Josh's teacher is horrified to see Boy in the classroom but Josh manages to turn the situation to good advantage - until things start to go badly wrong. When the headmaster tells Josh's mother the story of Boy's disastrous visit to school she insists that the calf is sold at once. The local storeman buys him in spite of Josh's protests, driving a hard bargain. But Josh is a fighter; he organises his schoolfriends to mount first a demonstration and then a hunger strike in his campaign to get Boy back. The villagers, hostile at first, are soon on his side. Before long the embarrassed storeman realises that he has not been as clever as he thought. Laszlo Ac's sensitive and lively drawings add to the pleasure of this book. The revised editions include new supplementary material including chapter summaries, an exploration of the book's major themes and post-reading comprehension activities.

Connie Palmer was born and raised on a farm in a small farming community in eastern Oregon. Being raised around all the farm animals, her favorite has always remained horses. Growing up with horses she attended horse 4-H, trail rides, cattle drives, and herding cattle on the farm. Her love and respect for horses remains to this day. In 1977 her husband Rick began working for the Bureau of Land Management in Vale, Oregon. During his years there he helped to round up over 10,000 head of wild horses. During that time Connie was able to view many wild horses of all colors and markings and a great love for the wild horses was gained. Some years later from this experience she was able to write the story of running, capturing, and adoption of the wild horse. And so the story was written: I Will Run Free No More.

Cox (1840-1924) was a Canadian illustrator and author, best known for The Brownies, his series of humorous verse books and comic strips featuring these mischievous but kind-hearted fairy-like sprites. Whilst Cox supplied the text for many of The Brownies titles himself, this short collection of stories published in 1896 was written by E. Veale, the Fairy Tales Authoress.