Earl Hamner's Latest Book Available

[Carolyn Grinnell]

I just ordered Earl Hamner's latest book, "Odette-A Goose of Toulouse." The book can be ordered from the following: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bear Manor Media and Waltons Mountain Country Store. This is a wonderful book for children.

[AR15]

Thanks for that post! Without it I would never have known about that book! Do you know where I can find a complete list of his books? Or could somebody please write a list out in this thread? The only books I know are Spencer's Mountain, 50 Roads to Town, You Can't Get There From Here, The Homecoming and Generous Women: An Appreciation. Are there others?

[Tracey]

Apr 21, 2011 19:27:05 GMT -5 AR15 said:

Thanks for that post! Without it I would never have known about that book! Do you know where I can find a complete list of his books? Or could somebody please write a list out in this thread? The only books I know are Spencer's Mountain, 50 Roads to Town, You Can't Get There From Here, The Homecoming and Generous Women: An Appreciation. Are there others?

Here is the list:

Good Night John Boy
The Avocado Drive Zoo
Lassie: A Christmas Story
Murder in Tinseltown

You can order these from this website @

www.the-waltons.com/amazon.html
or
www.earlhamner.com/books.html

[AR15]

Thank you

[dfnmeows44]

Can you get it at the Museum in Schuyler?

BTW Jimmy Weldon who played the part of the ticket salesman at the bus depot who told Jim Bob
that 'you can't go there from here' (Title of one of Earl's books)when he ordered a bus ticket to JAPAN played the part of the
ventriloquust who had a toy duck'Webster Webfoot' on a children's TV show in the early and mid
1950s

[Forum Administrator]

I got an email from Earl Hamner today, and he has asked if I would add this information telling how the book came about. So...here it is:

What’s That Goose Doing In Your Office?

Often when visitors come to my office they walk in and observe, “This isn’t an office. It’s an aquarium!” They aren’t far off. The fish are not alive or in a tank, but carved figures I have collected them from all over the world.
Lately visitors ignore the fish figures and want to know about the goose. It’s a noble bird that sits at a place of honor in the middle of my desk. Her name is Odette and her story began some years ago when our friends, John and Nota McGreevey invited Jane and me to join them on a barge cruse on the Canal du Midi that winds its way from Bordeaux to Toulouse.
It was autumn in France and I was back in a country I love. I first came to France as a soldier in World War Two. Now I was back as a tourist. It was autumn and the plane trees along the canal were golden yellow. The food on the barge was superlative and the scenery was magical. The canal wound it s way through small villages and farmland. Each view was memorable and unique.
It was in a small village along side the canal where I came upon my first Toulouse goose. She was a gorgeous creature with gray feathers laced with white and its expressive eyes were huge and brown. Our guide from the barge pointed out that it was still young but later it would be force fed copious amounts of grain until its liver was huge and then the goose would be slaughtered and its liver made into pate, or as the guide described it “a culinary delight.”
And the guide said all these dreadful things right in front of the poor goose, and when she leaned forward toward me and looked at me with those big brown eyes I could tell that she had heard and understood every word.
That was when the inspiration came to write ODETTE, A GOOSE OF TOULOUSE, A Celebration of Life and Music for Readers of All Ages. In the book Odette is destined to die for her liver, but because she is endowed with a special gift she saves her own life in a most surprising way.
The book is illustrated by the students in Judith Victoria Hensley’s 6th Grade class at Wallins
Elementary and Junior High School in Wallins Creek, Kentucky. Judith Hensley is a teacher, writer, and photographer and under her guidance her pupils have created illustrations that are original, artful, and at times quite innocent and at other time most sophisticated. As far as I know this is the first time a book has been illustrated by school children.
“ODETTE, A GOOSE OF TOULOUSE” is available from Amazon.com as well as Barnes and Noble.com. It can be ordered through your local bookstore or directly from the publisher at:

BearManor Media
P. O. Box 1129
Duncan, OK. 73534-1129
Phone: [phone]

Have a good read, and if you own a goose = be kind!

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[mllp88]

Just wanted to add that there is another awesome book out there you might enjoy. It is a biography of Earl Hamner...From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrow. It is written by James E. Person Jr. Very interesting to learn of all the different types of writing he has done over the years. Truly a talented and wonderful man!

[bigbruno]

Greetings, when you purchase Earl's book, check out the photo credit of Earl's photo. Too cool!!
See you in a few months, Big Bruno

[john8486]

The link below is from Nelson County Life. Mr. Hamner will be on the radio with NCL editor/publisher Tommy Stafford Friday, July 29, 2011 at 4:00 pm. It appears you will be able to click a link and listen to the show.

www.nelsoncountylife.com/2011/07/28/earl-hamner-talks-nelson-on-the-radio-this-friday-july-29th/

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I recently bought the book, Good Night John Boy.