Bøger af Robert Dinsmoor

Have you ever wanted to be friends with a dog who would bark and run away? Maybe it's a rescued dog. Adopting may come with some challenges, but they become so appreciative and loving once they know they're at their forever home! Here's a story about a rescued dog named Dixie and how she learned to trust a family friend. This non-fiction, endearing book tracks the progression of a one-year-old dog who was rescued from the streets of Georgia. The illustrator for this book, Helen Retynsky Kamins, and her two sons, consider adopting a dog despite Mom's continued sadness over their loss of their Black Lab Saba. This new addition to the family, named Dixie, has gotten used to her immediate family but has trouble dealing with other people. One of them is Rob Dinsmoor, a close family friend who is also a writer. Rob often accompanies Helen and Dixie on walks. After compiling his stories about Dixie, they decided to use them as the text for a children's book. This delightful tale describes life with an adopted dog and demonstrates patience and compassion. While recouperating from a scheduled operation, Helen took advantage of her limited mobility to work on providing illustrations for Rob's words. The result of their collaboration is "DOES DIXIE LIKE ME?"

Robert Dinsmoor's poetry is perhaps the greatest achievement of Scotch-Irish writing in the nineteenth century. His work frames a vibrant culture whose ties of faith, family and friendship criss-crossed the Atlantic.He records people, places and events with humour and compassion, and was rightfully accorded the status of the 'Rustic Bard' of New Hampshire. The recovery of his work is important. It underlines the power of art to find pathways between the Old and New Worlds; and how awareness of Scottish literature and traditions could be celebrated and extended in North America.Dinsmoor's writing encapsulates the hopes and aspirations of migrants asserting their place within a confident, awakening nation and stands as a pioneering articulation of postcolonial American literature.The reissue of this book on the poetry of a man called by some the Robert Burns of New Hampshire includes an Afterword by Alister McReynolds.