Sadge Eyhm
The Cow and the Carabao
(Amazon.com Oct. 10, 2011)
As I could recall, it was a night after an enjoyable dinner when Geemel, our daughter, who was in her third grade requested me to write her a very short story about friendship. I scribbled words themed as necessary, nearest to the idea of her asking. What came up was a story, more or less 500 words of anthropomorphous and free verse dimensions.
There are innumerable ways where friendship will, between or among persons, blossoms. Friendship unfolds after settlement of a fight, just looking to a person and mistakenly greets him as friend, through introduction of one who knows both; are few examples out of the many instances when strangers meet and come into amiable terms.
Friendship between persons of different physical features, unfamiliar languages and different familial idiosyncrasies is somewhat difficult—like when discrimination exists between them. Each of the mentioned three marks an intricate human intricacies that maybe the cause of misunderstandings among nations in this planet. Something must serve, as a bridge to connect the existing ‘open and empty space’ and so friendship will have a freeway in its travel. It may take in a form of an individual, a planet wide incident, global communal organization, sudden universal spiritual enlightenment. It’s truthfully and sorely needed to liven up the dying friendly relationship among people on this planet.
My sincere ‘thank you’ to my daughter who gave me the idea to write this one in addition to four other ‘live’ storybooks in Amazon. To my illustrator whose great illustrations depend in her sporadic inspirations, which, in turn, give me a lot of time allowance for my future books. To Amazon.com which is too gracious to accommodate all my storybooks in their online store and to wage an untiring promotions over the web.
When the farmer exercises his act of mercy—not to his own kind, but to two beasts of burden by putting them side by side in his loving care, is something familiar. (Jorge marks one of the most innovative styles of friendship by actually doing it—so weird and incomprehensible, one can find in, ‘Jorge and His Shy Friends’)
While grazing, drinking or resting in the sunny field or in the cozy stable, the beasts of burden draw a line that clearly defines the difference between them—causing many disputes and misunderstandings to their own disadvantage. Whatever the cause or causes, it appears to be a paradox. Anyone who’s too generous to give a leeway in the storyline may obtain a surprising conclusion: the beasts have their animalistic tongue—when translated it’s ours!
The Cow and the Carabao is a storybook of more or less 500 words (25 pages in print) written in a free verse style. Its illustrations will capture the imagination of a third grader child—hold it—until he fully digested the moral lesson of the story.
The author finds it helpful to supply a Glossary at the last pages of the storybook.
There are innumerable ways where friendship will, between or among persons, blossoms. Friendship unfolds after settlement of a fight, just looking to a person and mistakenly greets him as friend, through introduction of one who knows both; are few examples out of the many instances when strangers meet and come into amiable terms.
Friendship between persons of different physical features, unfamiliar languages and different familial idiosyncrasies is somewhat difficult—like when discrimination exists between them. Each of the mentioned three marks an intricate human intricacies that maybe the cause of misunderstandings among nations in this planet. Something must serve, as a bridge to connect the existing ‘open and empty space’ and so friendship will have a freeway in its travel. It may take in a form of an individual, a planet wide incident, global communal organization, sudden universal spiritual enlightenment. It’s truthfully and sorely needed to liven up the dying friendly relationship among people on this planet.
My sincere ‘thank you’ to my daughter who gave me the idea to write this one in addition to four other ‘live’ storybooks in Amazon. To my illustrator whose great illustrations depend in her sporadic inspirations, which, in turn, give me a lot of time allowance for my future books. To Amazon.com which is too gracious to accommodate all my storybooks in their online store and to wage an untiring promotions over the web.
When the farmer exercises his act of mercy—not to his own kind, but to two beasts of burden by putting them side by side in his loving care, is something familiar. (Jorge marks one of the most innovative styles of friendship by actually doing it—so weird and incomprehensible, one can find in, ‘Jorge and His Shy Friends’)
While grazing, drinking or resting in the sunny field or in the cozy stable, the beasts of burden draw a line that clearly defines the difference between them—causing many disputes and misunderstandings to their own disadvantage. Whatever the cause or causes, it appears to be a paradox. Anyone who’s too generous to give a leeway in the storyline may obtain a surprising conclusion: the beasts have their animalistic tongue—when translated it’s ours!
The Cow and the Carabao is a storybook of more or less 500 words (25 pages in print) written in a free verse style. Its illustrations will capture the imagination of a third grader child—hold it—until he fully digested the moral lesson of the story.
The author finds it helpful to supply a Glossary at the last pages of the storybook.
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