Letters from Moose Rump

By Collie Parsons and Barbara Morgan

Barbara Morgan is a talented writer who has an excellent sense of humor. She has the ability to write to the interest of both children and adults. These talents are brought out in this compilation of stories cast in letter format about critters and things found at Moose Rump Ranch.

In these story letters, Barbara demonstrates the ability to give personality and humorous behavior patterns to critters and things in fictional form. These letter-stories were tested on Barbaras sixteen grandchildren and a host of neighbors and friends. To her delight, to a great extent, the story-letters were found of interest to adults, especially parents.

These story-letters are presented with cartoon characters that will pique the interest of readers and make them eager to turn the pages and read about the characters that are included.


Beth Guske

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496908469

Collie Parsons

Reading Letters from Moose Rump will take readers back to the innocent days of childhood, when we secretly believed or at least hoped that farm animals would talk to each other when we weren’t around. By recounting stories of temptation, mischief, and bravery through the antics of adorable barnyard animals and inanimate things, author Barbara Morgan is able to convey important messages about how to live and to treat one another well. Each letter contains a carefully crafted and discreetly conveyed moral, but without being overly preachy, and each story is filled with the love of a grandmother for her grandchildren. This is a really priceless collection that is a joy to read. Carole J. Kitamura, Ed. MA

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© 2014 Barbara Morgan . All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/26/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4918-6787-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-0846-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014907731

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Contents

Introduction

Will Work for Food

Christmas for the Moose Rump Ranch Animals

Elsa the Cow

America’s Great Outhouse

Case of the Ruffled Feathers

Purpose of Bathing

Gypsy Goes Skiing

The Mad Cat Killers

Gang at the Canal

Fall Fair

Living-Room Gang

Papoo’s New Glasses

Charley the Spider

Gypsy Looking Forward to Thanksgiving

Roadkill Helper

The Llamas

Rules of Eating

I Just Want to Be Me

The Kitchen Gang

Magpie Tries Piercing

Whom Should I Marry?

The Great Chicken Race

Story of Split Ends

Monkey Who Fell Out of the Tree

Gypsy and the Fox

Going to the Dentist

Dirt Bag

Gypsy and the Poop

Introduction

Letters from Moose Rump is a compilation of stories that the author created while spending time on a small ranch in Oregon. The stories are in letter format, and they capture the real and imagined characteristics of critters and things that, in the author’s mind, inhabited the premises of Moose Rump Ranch.

Inside the book, the reader will be introduced to Gypsy the cat and such critters as the Toad family, Elsa the cow, and Dirt Bag, the carpet. The reader will also find stories about Christmas, Thanksgiving, summer, winter, llamas and other characters that inhabit the canal, and a sumptuous meal made with Roadkill Helper.

The author does an excellent job of casting the subjects in lifelike form with unique characteristics and personalities, which, although they are totally fictional, make the critters seem real.

The stories in this book are engaging, and the book will find its way into the interest of a wide segment of the reader world. A teacher will find this book an excellent resource to calm the energies of restless children returning from recess. It will be a source of enjoyment as a bedtime story, and it would also be an easy find on a coffee table or interest centers in professional waiting rooms and more.

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Will Work for Food

You are such a wonderful boy, and everyone who meets you thinks the same way I do. However, I want to remind you that when you start signing autographs at school, it might just possibly give you a big head, and you will lose touch with reality. You will suddenly find yourself standing on the street corner with a sign that says Will work for food! If you have noticed when driving through the streets, there are lots of people who carry that sign.

If you would rather not even hold up a sign, you might want to consider eating at the mission; I hear it is really quite a good deal.

As you stand on the street corner with your sign, people will go by and throw a nickel in your little paper cup and say,