"Thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches that tell of the days when Ben Green made a specialty of catching wild cows that roundups couldn't corral"--Cover.

"The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan. Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild's hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol's more than 20,000 patients have ranged from white mice to 2600 pound horses and everything...

Verse that is pitched to young children's sense of humor, using language skills that young children need to practice: puns, homophones, idioms, and anything that turns convention upside down

"The fires of America's fascination with the Wild West are stoked in this new compilation of the best and most exciting cowboy stories out there. For some of these writers, the West was a place of dreams, for others, of nightmares, but for us, they represent the freedom and delight of a lawless land. Boasting a diverse set of authors and perspectives, this collection of stories ensures every reader will get a nuanced and full sense of what the life...

Tales about faraway Russian villages, long winter nights, deep snow, thatched huts, forests with wild animals and muzhiks (peasants), who have never progressed beyond the very beginning of human civilization

"Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. "Stories of one kind or another have a way of pressing themselves into Irish conversation, both as entertainment and as a form of communication," writes William Trevor. "For centuries they have been offered to strangers, almost as hospitality is: tall stories, simple stories, stories of extraordinary deeds, of mysteries and wonders, of gentleness, love, cruelty, and violence." Himself an accomplished...

A collection of 400 poems arranged in eighteen thematic sections.