BARNABY’S SONG
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Free Preview BARNABY’S SONG Nancy Floege Anderson Author ID: 966 864 book OD; 67158 A cutting rain sliced from the blue-black clouds just as the last bus-riders boarded. The bus filled to over-loading with screams and shouts of excitement. Mr. Turpin didn’t even worry about not being able to open windows so kids could hang dog-like out of them to escape Barnaby’s songs. The other rider’s noises were so shrill that they almost buried Barnaby’s. “Let ‘em yell!” he thought to himself, and he headed down Furlong Avenue at a slow speed in the blinding sheets of rain. He was glad that the sky had blackened enough to cause the street lights to come on. In his rearview mirror Mr. Turpin saw Brian jumping up and down in the back seats. “I’m driving a cage full of wild monkeys!” he thought. His eyes jerked left to right and back again trying to see where the fields left the road. “Shoulda been a zoo-keeper,” he mumbled. Magically, as the wildness of rain and wind outside the bus grew, the wildness inside the bus quieted. The children froze into their seats. Only Brian kept moving sneakily and quietly toward the seat over the right rear wheel that Oxy and Barnaby shared.
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About the Book BARNABY’S SONG Nancy Floege Anderson Author ID: 966 864 Being happy with ourselves, whatever our own unique strengths and frailties, is often a lesson late learned. For Barnaby, however, it comes early. Barnaby was born enjoying his genetic “gifts” and so wastes few moments in regret. Though from birth on, Barnaby’s singing is a trial to all but him, he healthily deals with exclusion and animosity from others. Finally, during a fourth-grade emergency, the truth of his gift comes out. Barnaby’s story sends a message of self-acceptance and promise of a time to shine. Who knows where hidden talents will take us? Maybe the vibrational cosmos has unseen dimensions for us all. Easy reading for grades three to five, Barnaby’s story contains much use of figurative speech such as personification metaphors, similes, alliteration, and of course, oxymorons. Affixes and compound words provide teaching elements as well, making it an entity for classroom fun as well as individual enjoyment.
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About the Author BARNABY’S SONG Nancy Floege Anderson Author ID: 966 864 A retired teacher, Nancy Floege Anderson lives in the Texas Hill Country in a cabin built by her husband and herself. When weather allows, they spend their days moving rocks from place to place, encouraging native plants to thrive and adding on to their cabin. Children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are beautiful and loyal visitors to their home. Her great grandfather owned and edited a German language newspaper in central Texas for forty years and she grew up around boxes of scrap paper from his work. The stacked piles of different shaped and colored pieces were exciting and completing to her. “I can still see them in their box in the corner of his screened-in porch!” she says. Though pens and pencils made the paper grand, her younger adult years of five children confined writing to mostly grocery lists and lesson plans, with a few stories and poems sneaked in for fun. Now, with teaching and rearing pursuits belonging to others, she returns to the joy of a big yellow legal pad and a couple of cheap pens.