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    Animal Quackers: Dog-Eared Doggeral!
    Animal Quackers: Dog-Eared Doggeral!
    Animal Quackers: Dog-Eared Doggeral!
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    Animal Quackers: Dog-Eared Doggeral!

    By Dick Maltzman

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    The poems by Dick Maltzman in Animal Quackers are about amoeba, ants, dinosaurs, fish, birds, turtles, bunnies, giraffes, elephants, a vegetarian lion, and just about everything in between. Laugh if you wantthe author certainly wants you to that is the purpose of this collection. Whimsically illustrated by Jean Ann Smith; this charming poetry is designed to entertain a lot and teach a little.

    Encounter an amoeba named Fred who first decided to keep his extra cells when they came around, a lion named Darian who decides he doesnt like meat, Tommy the Turtle whos on a house-hunting expedition, an army of very smart ants, and a very inventive little bunny named George.

    Animal Quackers     is for kids of all ages. Youll even meet T-Rex and a sabertooth tiger, and maybe youll even like them!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 11, 2014
    ISBN9781491741191
    Animal Quackers: Dog-Eared Doggeral!
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    Dick Maltzman

    Dick Maltzman served as a regular naval officer From 1955 to 1958. Prior to being commissioned he attended Stanford University and Stanford Law School, where he was a Regular NROTC cadet. After leaving the Navy, Dick returned to Stanford to complete his legal education and practiced law in San Francisco for more than fifty years. He and his wife, Charlene, live in Palo Alto, California, where they raised their three sons and still are heavily involved with Stanford. Their love is still as strong as described in this book, if not stronger.

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      Animal Quackers - Dick Maltzman

      ANIMAL QUACKERS

      DOG-EA RED DOGGERAL

      Copyright © 2014 Dick Maltzman. .

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Cover art by Elena Lishanskaya courtesy of Thinkstock; internal illustrations by Jean Ann Smith

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-4120-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-4231-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-4119-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014913115

      iUniverse rev. date: 08/07/2014

      CONTENTS

      Dedication:

      The Wiggly Things That We Once Were

      I Owe A Debt To T-Rex

      Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Sabertooth Gone?

      Quackers

      Darian The Vegetarian

      Epilogue

      Don’t Sell Your Shell

      The Migration Of The Ants

      A Bunny’s Tail

      An Ode To Bow Ties

      DEDICATION:

      This book is dedicated to my grandchildren, Noa, Mica, Alexis, Jessica, Max and Zoe; my granddogs, Timber and Snowy Snowflake; my good friends, George the Bunny and Arnold the Squirrel; and the memory of Happy, Dickens, Napa, Tahoe and Moxie.

      THE WIGGLY THINGS THAT WE ONCE WERE

      (With apologies to Rick Santorum)

      Once upon a very

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