Maybe it's because his mother was a teacher. Or maybe it's because he has spent most of his life in classrooms as a wide-eyed first grader, a naA_ve college student, a seminarian, and now as a visiting writer in residencies across the country. But there's something about school that infuses the work of Donald Davis. Collected here are Davis's all-time favorite school stories. Whether we're traveling around the world with Miss Daisy, the fourth grade teacher who was integrating arithmetic, geography, ....
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Ride The Butterflies Back to School with Donald Davis,
By Bob E Coots (Lebanon, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This was an exceptional book that covers a school boy's memories of teachers and fellow students that left impact on his life. These memories are vivid with the tall, but true, tales that we can call relate to in our childhoods.
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Disappointing bus ride!,
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All of the chapters in this book have already been published in See Rock City and Listening for the Crack of Dawn. I enjoyed those works. I was disappointed when I discovered that Ride the Butterflies did not contain any new material.
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THERE WAS NO PUBLIC-SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM IN NORTH Carolina in the 1940s, but when I was five years old, instead of just staying at home, I attended Mrs. Rosemary's kindergarten. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hit dem pines, timed writing, track clock, snake farm, bus garage, rhythm band, big bus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Daisy, Sulpher Springs, Birch Bryan, Bobby Jensen, Miss Swinburne, Davey Martin, Nantahala County, Miss Caldwell, Stanley Easter, North Carolina, Carrie Boyd, Big Tater, Hallie Cosby, Miss Lily, Wedder's Creek, Clyde Valley, Coach Farlow, Sandra Trout, Davidson College, Leon Conner, South America, Uncle Floyd, Easter Bunny, Fresh Meadow Dairy Company, George Hossafield New!
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THERE WAS NO PUBLIC-SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM IN NORTH Carolina in the 1940s, but when I was five years old, instead of just staying at home, I attended Mrs. Rosemary's kindergarten. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hit dem pines, timed writing, track clock, snake farm, bus garage, rhythm band, big bus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Daisy, Sulpher Springs, Birch Bryan, Bobby Jensen, Miss Swinburne, Davey Martin, Nantahala County, Miss Caldwell, Stanley Easter, North Carolina, Carrie Boyd, Big Tater, Hallie Cosby, Miss Lily, Wedder's Creek, Clyde Valley, Coach Farlow, Sandra Trout, Davidson College, Leon Conner, South America, Uncle Floyd, Easter Bunny, Fresh Meadow Dairy Company, George Hossafield New!
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- See Rock City (American Storytelling) by Donald Davis in Back Matter
- Southern Jack Tales by Donald Davis in Back Matter
- Thirteen Miles From Suncrest by Donald Davis in Back Matter
- Writing as a Second Language by Donald Davis in Back Matter
- Listening for the Crack of Dawn (American Storytelling) by Donald Davis in Back Matter
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- Listening for the Crack of Dawn (American Storytelling) by Donald Davis in Back Matter
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