Rupert the Cross-eyed Rooster: The World From a Rooster's View - Softcover

Brown, Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420869558 ISBN 13: 9781420869552

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

Rupert was born with a slight disability. His eyes were crossed. As a result, many of his young friends made fun of his problem. Often they would not associate with him. Rupert was able to make friends with some of the other animals of the barnyard. With the love of his caring mother and Billy, another rooster, Rupert was able to survive his youth. After Rupert and Billy reached maturity, they went on an adventure from the mountains to the coast. At each stop they helped other chickens that were in distress. They returned to the mountains in time to save Rupert's mother from a disastrous situation. Rupert uses his disability to become a hero many times throughout the book. Rupert the Cross-eyed Rooster teaches it's readers to accept others regardless of their disabilities. These are stories which are taken from Brown's collections of folklore of the Blue Ridge Mountains and include lessons of tolerance, love, responsibility and friendship that the youngest to the oldest readers will appreciate. The book is filled with humorous quotes which are translations of "chicken scratch." This is an excellent book for reading to younger readers.

About this title

About the Author:

Dean Brown grew up in Mount Airy, North Carolina, sometimes known as Mayberry. He attended Mount Airy City Schools and Appalachian State University. Brown worked on his masters in Criminal Psychology at the University of South Florida, where he was employed as a prison librarian for the Florida Division of Corrections. He and his family later returned to Mount Airy where he continued his education in the Department of Library Science at Appalachian University's Graduate School. Dean was impressed with the published writers he met while studying at Appalachian State. He has published several humorous poems and stories which include "The Night I Burned the Outhouse Down", "My First Train Ride", "Laurel Hill", "Grandma's Apron", and others. He is the author of The Boyhood Adventures of JEB Stuart-A Civil War Hero, which is taken from his collection of Oral History of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Dean is a folk art painter and does his own illustrations. He taught art in some of the prisons and alternative schools which he worked in over the past forty-one years. He is married and has two children and three grandchildren.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420869558
• ISBN 13: 9781420869552
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56