Books with author William Tyler Davis

The forest animals are all atwitter. They've heard there's a mongoose loose in their midst. Many of these forest occupants are afraid of the mongoose, who is said to be very brave, very quick, and even faster than its fiercest enemy, the snake. In a fight the mongoose almost always wins, and the animals don't want any part of that battle. Written in lively verse, Who Let the Mongoose Loose Last Night? tells what happens when a feisty mongoose comes to a typical North American forest. The little foreign creature upsets the harmony of a peaceful animal community in an unexpected way. Of course, the mongoose upsets the snake; that's what mongooses do. And when the snake jumps down a hole, that definitely upsets a mole. This sets off a chain reaction among all the skittish inhabitants of the forest. The lively imaginations of the animals defy reality-rapidly leading to the absurd belief that "The world is actually turning inside out!"

On a crisp, snowy day in December, four playful wolf cubs set out to find a Christmas tree for their mountain den. They scamper and scurry, as wolf cubs will do. And their feathered friend WorryBird flutters and mutters with concern for their safety. She now worries more than usual because they are coming dangerously close to where the giant bear Garrumble is sleeping through the winter. Or is he? The stillness of the forest is shattered by a frightful ROAR rumbling through the mountains. "Garrowl! Garrumble" I've got you now" snarls the angry, hungry bear. Crashing, smashing though the trees. The snow is deep, slowing the small cubs. But then, what happens? Something unexpected. Something quite surprising, which makes even WorryBird . . . less worried. As we will learn, Christmas is a magic time . . . with magical influences.

One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever. Using letters, diaries, and memoirs of men who lived through the epic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack and of those who witnessed it from afar, William C. Davis documents and analyzes this famous confrontation of the first two modern warships. The result is a full-scale history that is as exciting as a novel. Besides a thorough discussion of the designs of each ship, Davis portrays come of the men involved in the building and operation of America's first ironclads-John Ericsson, supreme egoist and engineering genius who designed the Monitor; John Brooke, designer of the Virginia; John Worden, the well-loved captain of the Monitor; Captain Franklin Buchanan of the Virginia; and a host of other men on both Union and Confederate sides whose contributions make this history as much a story of men as of ships and war. William C. Davis is the editor of Civil War Times Illustrated and the author of Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol ; The Battle of New Market; Battle at Bull Run; and The Orphan Brigade.

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