The Scary Bushfire The Magical Scarecrows Episode One

Once upon a time a nine year old girl had a dream of becoming an author. She wrote her first story ‘The Magical Scarecrow’ and sent it to a publisher. The publisher told her that her style was good but the content not long enough. Twenty-five years later, with her first best-seller under her belt, the little girl rewrote her first story for her sister’s children. As those children grew and shared their aunt’s story with other children the expanded Magical Scarecrows stories by Auntie Lynn were suddenly in hot demand. But rather than make these a commercial offering, Auntie Lynn decided she would have the stories professionally illustrated, edited, and produced to give away for free to needy children to help with the vital skill of literacy in a program that has become known as The Magical Scarecrows KIDS WHO READ SUCCEED program. The concept was so successful that it almost sent Auntie Lynn to the bankruptcy courts when she fulfilled requests coming in from orphanages in Bali, missions in India, schools in Zimbabwe, Aborigine reading programs in Australia, and many more.

Breathed to life by Mother Earth to care for her planet and all life on it, Croowz (The Australian Magical Scarecrow) and Race C Rows (the English Magical Scarecrow) embark on a series of daring adventures to rescue their animal friends from bushfires, fireworks night, slithering snakes, and thieving magpies. Testing the limits of their endurance and resources they learn we are only bound by our imaginations and our imaginations are boundless. Hiding their secret sadness the Magical Scarecrows gladly care for all their animal friends, while each believes they are the only ones of their kind on earth. When migratory bird friends learn of their plight they begin a quest to find their straw-filled saviors another living scarecrow but from opposite sides of the world how might these two marvelous magical beings ever be able to meet?

A Spring Day—The Sky—The Mountains—The Streams—The Woods—The Open Fields—Domestic Animals—Poetry—The Poultry-yard A corn-planting Bee Lake Horicon—Sketches of its scenery—Information for anglers—Sabbath-day Point—War memories—The Turret City—Death of a deer—Roger's Slide—Diamond Island—The snake-charmer—Snake stories—Night on the Horicon The Scaroon Country—Scaroon Lake—Pike Fishing by Torch-light—Trout Fishing—Lyndsey's Tavern—Paradox Lake The Adirondac Mountains—Trout Fishing in the Boreas River—A night in the woods—Moose Lake—Lake Delia—Mount Tahawas—Lakes Sanford and Henderson—The McIntyre Iron Works John Cheney, the Adirondac hunter, and some of his exploits Burlington—Lake Champlain—Distinguished Men Stage-coach—The Winooski—The Green Mountains—The ruined Dwelling—The White Mountains—The Flume—A deep Pool—The Old Man of the Mountain—The Basin—Franconia Notch—View of the Mountains—Mount Washington—The Notch Valley Montreal Quebec A sail down the St. Lawrence—Sword-Fish—Chasing a Whale The Saguenay River—Chicoutimi—Storm Picture—Hudson's Bay Company—Eminent Merchant—The Mountaineer Indians—Tadousac—Ruin of a Jesuit Establishment The Salmon—Salmon Adventures Seal-hunting on the St. Lawrence—The white Porpoise The Esquimaux Indians of Labrador The Habitans of Canada The Grand Portage into New Brunswick—Lake Timiscouta—The Madawaska River The Acadians Sail down the Madawaska—The Falls of the St. John The Hermit of Aroostook The River St. John The Penobscot River Moosehead Lake—The River Kennebeck A Fishing Party on the Thames—Watch Hill—Night Adventures A week in a Fishing Smack—Fisherman—A beautiful morning at sea—A day at Nantucket—Wreck of a ship—Night on the Sound

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“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.” —J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar “[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.” —Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford’s bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.