Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"Hark! A Vagrant" takes readers on a romp through history and literature--with dignity for few and cookies for all--with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared-down, excitable style. This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether she's writing about Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a refined sense...

Bob the rat is captured by two of the queen's cats and survives by sharing fresh-baked cookies and stories of his ancestors, whose escapades are similar to those of fairy-tale heroes.

"Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature - chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age - a brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction. In supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual profession, Josh Cohen illuminates a new way to understand ourselves. He helps us see what...

In this story based on the well-known rhyme, a cat and a cow want to jump over the moon, but it is so high and the little dog cannot stop laughing at them.

Tick. Tock. Time is running out for Wonderland. When Alice Liddell got married and became Alice Hargreaves, she received one last gift from the man who immortalized her in Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass?a watercolor painting. To anyone else, it?s just a normal painting of Oxford. But to Alice, it?s a portal to another world. One that she doesn?t dare go through anymore?as a wife, a mother, and a well-brought-up upper-class...

A child explores the world around his home and fills it with characters from the stories and fables he knows.

"The Masked Man possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can twins Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man?"--

An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel's favorite characters include Jim from Huckleberry Finn, Phoebe from The Catcher in the Rye,...

This "is a comprehensive companion guide for background, history, reader-favorite information, art, and reference materials. Combined with original short stories and scenes from some of the world's most beloved characters, as well as never-before-seen visual enticements, it's a treat for the senses. Told from the point of view of Miss Willa herself, the compendium acts like research material but reads like a journal and cache of personal notes, allowing...

John Pellam is a location scout travelling the country in search of schooling sites for films. In upstate New York, Pellam is suddenly center stage in an unfolding drama of violence, lust, and conspirace, which have a stranglehold on this less than perfect local.