“A wonderful book.” Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation “Delightful…a joy to read.” – Con Slobodchikoff, PhD, author of Chasing Doctor Dolittle It’s also a guide on how to employ their methods to connect with pets in a deeper and clearer way than anyone thought was possible. How Stella Learned to Talk is an unforgettable story about how the love between a dog and a speech-language therapist changed the world. Now, Stella regularly presses several buttons in a row to say phrases like “bed want outside” before taking a nap in the sun, or “love you come come” before flopping over for a belly rub. In less than two years, Christina grew closer to her dog than she ever thought possible as Stella amassed more than forty-five words. Using her skills and experiences from working with children with significant language development delays, Christina taught Stella to use paw-size buttons programmed to say “outside”, “play”, and “water” to express her different needs, kicking off a revolution in animal communication. When speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger brought home a puppy named Stella, she asked herself a simple question: If dogs can understand words humans say to them, shouldn’t they be able to say them back to us? How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World’s First Talking Dog
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It may have been the bright, bold illustrations or the easy upbeat rhythms, but many more poems were recited, one after the other with much enthusiasm. Much grumbling ensued, but he was persuaded to read just one of his choice. The day I brought the book home I suggested to my 12-year-old he may like to read some of the poems to his sister. Our little whānau of three have also suffered some big losses and changes in the last 18 months so talking (or attempting to talk) about feelings has been somewhat of a focus.įeel a Little contains 14 poems, each one about a different feeling with illustrations to match. Our household consists of myself and my two tamariki, a 12-year-old with an awesome Aspergers brain and a delightfully demonstrative six-year-old. Feelings are a big topic in our household. Miryem is the Jewish daughter of a soft-hearted moneylender who would rather live in poverty than collect his debts Wanda is the gentile daughter of an abusive alcoholic farmer and Irina is the part-Staryk daughter of a disappointed duke scheming for the throne. In Lithvas - a country ruled by a Tsar and his dukes, and harried by gold-hungry fairy creatures called the Staryk - three young women struggle to make the most of their lives. (Full disclosure: I, too, had a story in The Starlit Wood.) It's a sophisticated development of her short story by the same title published in the 2016 anthology The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales - itself a brilliant reclamation of "Rumpelstiltskin," digging deep into that story's anti-Semitism and pulling up something nourishing from the roots. Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver is not a sequel to her 2015 novel Uprooted, though both are richly remade fairy tales set in fantastical versions of Eastern Europe with addictive voice work and characterization. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Spinning Silver Author Naomi Novik The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed 19-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. “The queen of beach reads” ( New York ) delivers an immensely satisfying pause-resister in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.įresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. |