Love Canada Geese is excited to introduce Skylar, an outstanding children's novel about Canada geese. Skylar is published by Philomel (Penguin books).
Mary Cuffe-Perez (Author)
Renata Liwska (Ilustrator)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mary Cuffe-Perez is a writer living in the small rural town of Galway, in upstate New York. She has a special interest in writing about local and natural history. She has published articles on natural history in Adirondack Life, the NYS Conservationist and Yankee,among others, and her short fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals. She is director of a nationally recognized literary, social history project, the Story Quilt, and the book, Story Quilt: Poems of a Place, published in 2007. She is the author of a collection of poems based on the life of a homeless woman living in Albany, NY, entitled The Woman of Too Many Days (Calyx Press). Skylar, her first children’s book (Philomel Books), was inspired by observations of geese in a suburban pond and her fascination with the beauty and resiliency of these magnificent birds.
Our reviews:
Once in a long while, an exceptional book is written that captivates our imagination and our hearts and becomes a timeless classic. Mary Cuffe-Perez’s Skylar is such a book.
Skylar and his four friends are Canada geese who have lived most of their lives in a man-made pond. They’ve never flown from this pond and there has never been a reason to do so. They’re well fed, safe and comfortable and quite content except when they hear the calls of migrating geese. Then, they are filled with a wistful restlessness, a yearning to be real wild geese.
They get the chance to be like their wild cousins when a lost heron shows up at their pond and asks them to help him locate Lost Pond. Skylar, the plump, feathered self-proclaimed general of the flock, boasts that he knows the way and leads his friends and the one-eyed heron and readers on a journey of discovery that is filled with fun, fear, wonder and danger.
This is a book that will be loved by readers of all ages and ranks at the top with Charlotte’s Web and The Snow Goose.
Choo Choo Love
Founder, www.LoveCanadaGeese.com
“The trouble with geese is that they’re always stopping to think things over."
These lines are spoken by a one-eyed heron who has enlisted a flock of five out of shape suburban pond geese to help him migrate south. It is from a wonderful new book Skylar by Mary Cuffe-Perez.
Skylar is the story of five Canada geese who live an idyllic life as resident geese at a suburban man-made pond. However, these geese are envious of the wild geese that they observe migrating each fall. They have an opportunity to emulate their wild cousins when a lost one-eyed heron arrives at their pond and seeks aid in migrating.
Each of the five suburban geese has a unique and interesting personality. Readers will both laugh and cry as they follow the journey of the five Canada geese and the one-eyed heron. Although the book is marketed for young readers, everyone who reads it will love it. With the possible exception of Mel Ellis’ extraordinary Wild Goose, Brother Goose this is the best novel ever written about geese.
Earl S. Rosenbloom, Ph.D.
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