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Christmas at Grandma's
"Who doesn't remember the holiday sights and sounds and smells of Grandma's house? The living room aglow with a tree that touches the ceiling, the clatter of silverware and kitchen pans, the banter of relatives, and especially Grandma's bright face—Donald Davis captures these memories and more and relays them through the eyes of a child."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
Friends Come Back: ...and That's a Good Thing
"The best friend of our youth has no replacement, ever. Though we may start out as 'two peas in a pod', we often lose touch with one another. In this affecting tale of two adults who reclaim their childhood bond after 30 years apart, the comforts of friendship are affirmed with humor and wit. The second story, 'The Frog Jumped Twice', recalls a childhood lesson, learned at no small cost, that comes to full flower in adulthood. As usual, Davis deftly disguises a realization of enduring values in the guise of humor and remembrance. ©2002 Donald Davis; (P)2002 August House Publishers, Inc."
See Rock City: A Story Journey Through Appalachia
"A winding highway; children fighting in the back seat; parents suggesting diversionary games and holding onto their own hopes and fears for the vacation ahead. It's not an uncommon scene. But it is Donald Davis's genius that turns a lackluster family vacation into a week to remember. The 1950s-era plastic seat covers were not the only thing to leave a lasting impression. In her spontaneous (and desparate) invention of games like Cow Poker and See Rock City, Mother keeps the rules one step ahead of the back-seat contestants, until one-too-many choruses prompt a detour the family never forgets."
Big-Screen Drive-In Theater
"The 'home theater' will never replace the drive-in theater in America's imaginary landscape. Donald Davis recalls a summer working under the lax supervision of Daff-Knee Garlic, owner and operator of the Sulpher Springs Big-Screen Drive-In Theater in rural North Carolina in the early 1960s. Davis recalls his duties at the concession stand, catching 'slip-ins,' and patrolling the back rows. But the story culminates on Labor Day when the last movie, The Guns of Navarrone, is almost over. Davis and his buddies decide to give a friend and his date a night to remember—one Daff-knee Garlic can't forget either!"
"'It was the forty-second year she had taught fourth grade,' and the A's through GR's were thinking that Miss Daisy had probably seen her better days. A mouse entered the classroom through an open door while the frail figure of a teacher stood before her desk on the first day of school. Her new class thought they were about to see the old woman wither -- or worse. What followed, however, convinced them that this would not be an ordinary year in elementary school. In fact, Miss Daisy didn't use established methods or materials; piles of textbooks lined her closets -- their brown paper wrappers never removed. What Miss Daisy did employ was the imagination of her fourth-graders as she led them on a year-long world tour. They computed the efficiency of their cars, the volume of their luggage, duration of railway journeys, but they never opened a math book. They memorized the names of faraway places, but never studied spelling. They assessed the terrain ahead before setting out on each leg of the journey, but never opened the geography text. Through it all, Miss Daisy became their champion, thwarting the school board's attempts to 'educate' the fourth grade at Sulpher Springs School. Seen and heard on CNN, Nightline, and American Public Radio's Good Evenng, Donald Davis has told stories for audiences throughout the United States, the British Isles, Indonesia, and New Zealand. He is the author of eight books, including Listening for the Crack of Dawn, winner of the Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Award."
Grandma's Lap Stories
"Most people who decide to take the mule ride through the Grand Canyon focus on the spectacular beauty around them. Donald Davis, however, found his focus trained sharply on the 48-inch-wide trail whose ledge drops 700 feet to the Colorado River. Interweaving his trademark humor with vivid detail of perhaps the most remarkable experience offered by the National Park Service, Davis paints for us the stages of this adventure: the gleeful anticipation, the encounter with his 'own personal mule,' the initial terror, and finally, the awe inspired by the panorama around him."
"Some folks just prefer to stay home. You know them - whole families who politely decline invitations because they don't spend money on fancy clothes, don't care for 'small talk'. And they certainly don't dance. They're just not 'party people'. Meet an earnest first-grader, intent upon convincing his hill-country parents that other children are treated to a party each year on their birthday, that they invite friends, eat cake - and receive presents. Meet also his equally intent mother, who is determined not to open this can of worms, not with the 128 cousins who might start doing the same thing. Both of them step out of this luminous story that turns the concept of 'good neighbors' upside down. ©2008 Donald Davis; (P)2008 August House, Inc."
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