Sourdough Scotts' Bedtime Fairy Tales From Alaska [Mass Market Paperback]

Dan Janik (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

When recently asked about his years of prospecting, Daniel S. Janik said, "Yes, I was ultimately successful and discovered gold -- a golden thread running throughout my life -- my friendship with Ted and my writing." Dan's bedtime fairy tales of the far North are a new breed of oral tales, told and retold around campfires - now developed into complete stories. Sourdough Scott's Bedtime Fairy Tales From Alaska are pure pleasure, for you, your friends, your children, and their children's children. They are Dan's heartfelt gift to the precious, childlike, explorer-pioneer inside of all of us - himself included!

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About the Author

At 10 years of age, Dan immigrated with his family to Alaska, and spent his childhood watching the Last Frontier transform from a wild territory into a full-fledged state. From Cub Scout to Eagle Scout, he and his best friend, Joseph 'Ted' Ireton, hiked, backpacked, and camped Southcentral Alaska together from Homer to Talkeetna, Skwentna to McCarthy. A graduate of East Anchorage High School, he went on to study at the University of Washington (BA), University of California at Berkeley (MPH), Loma Linda University (MD) and later Bircham International University (PhD). He later returned to Anchorage and served briefly as Consulting Pediatrician and then Medical Director of the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, and finally Municipal Medical Officer, all the while trekking his beloved mountains and prospecting for gold with Ted. Author of over 60 academic and literary publications, he currently teaches American Academic English at Intercultural Communications ! College in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ted Ireton is a Yupik Eskimo and lives in Anchorage with his wife Judy and son Scott.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Publication Consultants (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159433031X
• ISBN-13: 978-1594330315
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,137,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Daniel S. Janik is a physician-educator-author-naturalist and owner of Savant Books and Publications (http://www.savantbooksandpublications.com). He has authored numerous books in a wide variety of genre's under a variety of pen names. He lives in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii, USA with his lovely wife Setsuko Tsuchiya.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Otter Girl interesting!!, August 3, 2006

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Juri (Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sourdough Scotts' Bedtime Fairy Tales From Alaska (Mass Market Paperback)

This story helps the society for improving English.

"Otter Girl" is not difficult to read, but it is not easy either. I learned a lot of new vocabularies by reading "Otter Girl". I am glad that I could improved my English skills.

Also this story is very interesting, the girl was looking for her dream prince long time, usually people won't do same thing as her, and she met the prince. It tells us that we shouldn't give up anything so easily.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wolf and Moon, August 3, 2006

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Ruby - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sourdough Scotts' Bedtime Fairy Tales From Alaska (Mass Market Paperback)

I would think that, a problem between the young man and the maiden, was not going well being together. And I guess so many people in the world having almost same problem as them. And this problem in the story was solved by changed from human being, the young man changed to wolf and the maiden changed to the moon, and both felt their loneliness and also thought [I should have been nice with her/him], and finally when they wake from a dream, they after all go well together. I think this story contains the idea of everything can be changed in better way.

And as I could read, this story is good for children, for English grammar and vocabularies, also good stories, are good English learning for about 5-10 year-old English native speaker children, and good for 15-20 year-old children Foreign English speaker.