A town's concern for a beloved young girl inspires this organic Vermont farming community to rally against a giant biotech agribusiness in a desperate attempt to safeguard the environment against genetic pollution and preserve the unique region's heirloom crops.
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"Country meets corporate in Jeanne Prevett Sable's shuddering story of corporate marketeers bent on swapping DNA for dough-re-me." -- Steve Sherman, Contributing writer, the Keene Sentinel September 5, 2005
About the Author
Jeanne Prevett Sable is a freelance journalist and former newspaper editor with hundreds of articles published in local, regional, and national publications. She and her husband grow most of their own organic vegetables for year-round use, in a small garden on the edge of a 12-acre forest in New Hampshire. Her column, "Garden on the Edge", appears online at theheartofnewengland.com. Although she wrote "Seed Keepers of Crescentville" for adults, she has written, performed, and toured with an environmentally educational puppet theater and penned numerous episodes of a popular children's television show. A singer/song writer for more than 30 years, she offers "book singings" of songs of farm and garden, which she presents to libraries, bookstores, farmers' markets, and other venues in lieu of more traditional book signings. Several songs in the program are originals based on characters and scenes from the book.
Jeanne helped her father, veteran Harold L. Prevett, publish the WWII novel "Corporate Myopia" when he was 88 years old. "Seed Keepers of Crescentville" is Jeanne's first novel.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A beautiful and important book,
By Elaine B. (New England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Seed Keepers of Crescentville (Paperback)
I read "Seed Keepers of Crescentville" with profound enjoyment and recommend it highly. This book is like a spring thunderstorm making a clean sweep through a fetid corporate board room.
Excellent from every angle - a well-told story, admirable wordsmithing, genuine dialogue and characters. Moreover, the book decries the hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms and inspires folks to resist without ever being "preachy." When I read the quote on the back comparing "Seed Keepers" to Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," I thought that was a pretty tall order. But from the point of view of exposing the dangers and hazards of GMOs, the book works and the comparison is apt. Sable exposes the threat of GMOs through genuinely engaging means. This book can change the way you think, and live.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A friendly book for environmentalist hippies,
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This review is from: Seed Keepers of Crescentville (Paperback)
This is a cute little family-oriented book about a big, powerful, company trying to take over our lives. It's actually much like the old Westerns but without the violence. The protagonists don't live in a small town--they live several miles outside of a very small town. The big company is portrayed not as evil, but as lacking humanity. The small-town heroes who have earth wisdom and common sense are portrayed as loving, fun, people.
Jean Prevett Sable describes the bad guys as the company with the genetically altered seeds. However, the "evil" in the book is exacerbated by the United States court system and patent laws. There a significant parallel to copywritten software programs and other intellectual property. The "evil" that Jean Prevett Sable attacks is fundamentally our freedom and the government that supports it, although her plot and characters make it appear that the heartless manipulative big business is the basic problem. I enjoyed the description of the people involved and the way that Jean Prevett Sable recreated little bits of my own childhood. Surely she was raised somewhere like Crescentville and the best parts of this book must be autobiographical. In today's world, it is more important than ever not to take the "easy" road by trading comfort and convenience for destruction of the environment and a less "human" standard of living. This book points out the creeping and insidious ways that our (environmental) moral life can be eroded. Overall, a fun, short, book. It could be used in a seventh grade class as a cross-curriculum reading project.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tip of the iceburg!,
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This review is from: Seed Keepers of Crescentville (Paperback)
This book was fun to read with intelligent and articulate dialogue and characters true to form. I have lots of relatives in Vermont. The message is fundamental to all of us who want to reclaim our food supply. I hope Jeanne Prevett Sable writes a sequel book. There are lots of folks having side effects from genetically modified organisms (like hives from GM corn and corn products, corn syrup, dextrose, maltodextrin) and the horizontal gut transfer. Community Supported Agriculture is the way to go!
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