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    Uncle Allen's Tales
    Uncle Allen's Tales
    Uncle Allen's Tales
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    Uncle Allen's Tales

    By Allen Hanson

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    Uncle Allen’s Tales is a collection of fables, each with a moral. Journey through life’s dilemmas with the colorful animals that race, waddle, and leap through these pages! From a fast-footed kangaroo to a smart-mouthed moose, each creature has a story to tell and a lesson to teach. These intriguing characters will tickle the imagination and teach simple truths, ones that children and adults face every day. Inside are thirty charming and entertaining stories that children of all ages will love!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Opal Books
    Release dateSep 24, 2016
    ISBN9781626945265
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      Uncle Allen's Tales - Allen Hanson

      Uncle Allen’s Tales is a collection of fables, each with a moral. Journey through life’s dilemmas with the colorful animals that race, waddle, and leap through these pages! From a fast-footed kangaroo to a smart-mouthed moose, each creature has a story to tell and a lesson to teach. These intriguing characters will tickle the imagination and teach simple truths, ones that children and adults face every day. Inside are thirty charming and entertaining stories that children of all ages will love!

      KUDOS FOR UNCLE ALLEN’S TALES

      In Uncle Allen’s Tales by Allen Hanson, we have a modern-day version of Aseop’s Fables. With short, charming stories, featuring lovable animal characters, Hanson both educates and entertains. Each story as a moral, and each one is different, a delightful collection of intriguing and engaging tales that will hold your interest and maybe even teach you a thing or two. A natural teacher as well as an accomplished storyteller, Hanson boils down the gist of life’s little problems and takes us on a journey with Freda the Frog, Bobby the Bear, Terry the Tiger, and many more, making everyday lessons fun and meaningful. This is a book that both the young and the young at heart will love. ~ Taylor Jones, Reviewer

      Uncle Allen’s Tales by Allen Hanson is a children’s book of fables. With thirty short stories, filled with adorable animal characters, children can learn lessons about life, growing up, and fitting in with society in a way that they will remember all their lives. A perfect book for parents to read bedtimes stories to their children from, the book can also do double duty as a child’s first reader. Children will enjoy romping with Samantha the Salmon as she makes a total fool out of herself, trying to be politically correct, instead of listening to her elders about the dangers of life at sea, or hopping around with Freda the Frog as she learns that sometimes you have to do what you’re told first and ask why later. With these cute, charming, and often poignant stories, Hanson manages to instruct without being preachy and entertain while still getting the point across. And the clever illustrations will delight children of all ages, even those who can’t yet read. ~ Regan Murphy, Reviewer

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      First, I want to thank the Art House Writers, especially Judith Quaempts. They got me started down this path, and I hope I will get to collaborate with them again soon.

      Thanks also go out to my publisher, Black Opal Books. They took the rough gem I created, polished and faceted it, and turned it into the luminous gem you are now reading. They have been great to deal with, and I can’t thank them enough for their excellent work and for putting up with me through the publishing process!

      Thanks to all my friends at Qualfon USA. Qualfon is a great place to work, and I am so glad to be employed there. I especially want to thank the members of the Coeur d’Alene SiriusXM group. They have been so loyal and supportive to me.

      Thanks to my former roommates, Jeff Birky and Charlotte Hermann, for putting up with me during the creative process. Jeff and Charlotte let me use their children, Miriam and Jeffrey, Jr., as guinea pigs for my stories, and they guarded my time so that I could stay focused on the book when I needed to be.

      I thank my brother and sisters and their families for being so supportive and protective of me. I especially thank my brother-in-law Jake Cutshall. Jake is insanely busy, but never lets his family down. I am honored to be included in that family.

      Thanks to Dr. Bruce Norquist, for reviewing some of my stories, and suggesting an alternative story line for Stevie the Sturgeon.

      Thanks are in order to Kellee Elmenhurst, who helped me out of a severe writer’s block by suggesting stories about manners and forgiveness, which became Clara the Cow and Ollie the Octopus.

      Thanks to all my Facebook friends, who, once they found out I was writing a book, were very encouraging and spread the word to their friends as I release it for publication.

      Finally, thanks to you, gentle reader, for buying this book!

      Uncle Allen

      Uncle Allen’s Tales

      Written by Allen Hanson

      Illustrated by Jack Jackson

      A Black Opal Books Publication

      Copyright © 2016 by Allen Hanson

      Illustrations and Cover Design by Jackson Cover Designs

      All artwork copyright © 2016

      All Rights Reserved

      EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-626945-26-5

      DEDICATION

      I dedicate this book to my dog Ferb, who has been with me through thick and thin over the last four years!

      It is also dedicated to the many children who have become my friends over the years. They call me Uncle Allen whether they are related to me or not.

      Every child needs a crazy uncle, and I am proud to serve in that capacity for any child who asks!

      Foreword

      How Uncle Allen’s Tales Came To Be

      It was January 2010, and I was looking for an outlet for my writing skills. I was working at Cayuse Technologies as a Software Engineer, living in Pendleton, Oregon, and I was enjoying it. I had applied for a part-time sports writing position with the East Oregonian, the local newspaper. Despite excellent work samples from newspapers where I had written previously and strong references, I couldn’t get a break.

      Fortunately I saw an ad in the East Oregonian for a group that met in the Center for the Arts in Pendleton—they called themselves the Art House Writers. Once I got in touch with one of their members, I started attending meetings every other Tuesday after work.

      The Art House Writers group was great. We all helped each other improve our writing and challenged each other to try different things. This book grew out of a challenge posed to me by one of my fellow writers.

      I like to write poetry—I do haiku as a writing exercise, and I enjoy reading and writing poetry in the style of Rudyard Kipling. Instead of writing about India or the other places Mr. Kipling lived, I wrote about the places I had been—Northern Idaho, where I grew up, Alaska, Seattle, Israel, and

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