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Werken van Andrew Fusek Peters

Ravenwood (2011) 150 exemplaren
Salt Is Sweeter Than Gold (1994) 22 exemplaren
Monkey's Clever Tale (2003) 16 exemplaren
Poems with Attitude (2000) 15 exemplaren
Animals Aboard! (2007) 15 exemplaren
The No-No Bird (2008) 15 exemplaren
Out of order (2001) 10 exemplaren
Priceless! (2008) 8 exemplaren
Crash (Bite S.) (2004) 8 exemplaren
Ed and the Witchblood (2003) 7 exemplaren
Diamonds are for Evil (2008) 7 exemplaren
Megan's Tick Tock Rocket (2007) 7 exemplaren
Glass Forest (2012) 6 exemplaren
Ed and the River of the Damned (2005) 6 exemplaren
Strange And Spooky Stories (1997) 5 exemplaren
Dragon and Mousie (2006) 4 exemplaren
Poems with Attitude Uncensored (2002) 4 exemplaren
Hare and the Hungry Elephant (2013) 3 exemplaren
How the World Woke Up (2013) 3 exemplaren
Spies Unlimited (2006) 3 exemplaren
The Woman Who Tricked Death (2013) 3 exemplaren
Ghosts Unlimited (2006) 3 exemplaren
Nasrudin and the Coat (2013) 2 exemplaren
Diamantenjagd (2009) 2 exemplaren
Do Not Wake the Devil. (Heroes) (2011) 2 exemplaren
How the Fly Saved the River (2013) 2 exemplaren
Bear and Turtle 1 exemplaar
The Flower King (2020) 1 exemplaar
Ed and the Devil's Chair (2018) 1 exemplaar
The Hare Notebook (2016) 1 exemplaar
Upland (2017) 1 exemplaar
Butterfly Safari (2023) 1 exemplaar
Sadderday and Funday (2001) 1 exemplaar
Tiger and Mrs Mousedeer (2013) 1 exemplaar
Jack Foretells the Future (2013) 1 exemplaar
Rabbit and Coyote (2013) 1 exemplaar

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Peters, Andrew Fusek
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Peters, Andrew
Peters, Andrew (Andrew Fusek)
Geboortedatum
1965-07-02
Geslacht
male
Geboorteplaats
Hildesheim, Germany
Woonplaatsen
Shropshire, England
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writer
poet
Relaties
Peters, Polly (spouse, co-author)

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Independent Reading Level: Grades Kindergarten-4th
Awards: Notable Children's Books (2008)
 
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Mgtyre | 40 andere besprekingen | Dec 4, 2022 |
I liked the illustrations in this book, and the ways that the kid and dad describe the dad's depression. It has a happy ending...and not that I don't like happy endings, especially in kids books, but I tend to appreciate children's books about depression more when they accept the possibility of relapse/future depression.
 
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katebrarian | 2 andere besprekingen | Jul 28, 2020 |
The superb Waterlog by the late Roger Deakin has inspired many people to rediscover the delights of wild swimming; Joe Minihane writes about following in the wet footprints of Deakin in Floating as he travels around the country to the same locations. Swimming With Seals is set in Orkney and tells of Victoria Whitworth wild swimming experiences there. And there is the superb Turning by Jessica J. Lee, where she battles self-doubt and depression and challenges herself to swim in 52 of the lakes around Berlin.

Andrew Fusek Peters takes a different perspective in Dip. This is his account of swimming in the pools, rivers, and lakes over the course of a year near where he lives in the Shropshire county and elsewhere. He is prepared to swim any time of the year, braving the bone-chilling waters in January, dipping into the refreshing pools in the heat of August, being invigorating by waterfalls and braving the delights of a bog pool.

As with a lot of natural history books now, there is a personal side to this book as he describes the other dip that he suffered from, a deep depression that affected him so much so that he had a spell in hospital at his very lowest ebb and reached a point where it was life-threatening. This dark undercurrent to his life was as much to do with personal circumstances as it was his character, he is haunted by his father's suicide and still deeply saddened by his brother's early death from AIDS.

There is a deep melancholy and eloquence to his writing as even though he was better when he wrote the book, the spectre of depression is still a shadow in the background and its swirls still muddy the waters of his life. It also demonstrates the healing benefits of being outdoors and closer to the natural world as he immerses himself in the waters. The book is greatly enhanced by the photographs in the book taken by his daughter took and short excerpts of poetry that are liberally scattered throughout. It is another book in the natural history memoir sub-genre that is worth reading.
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PDCRead | Apr 6, 2020 |
I thought that this was a cute poem
 
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Rileyholcomb | 40 andere besprekingen | Nov 27, 2018 |

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86
Leden
1,027
Populariteit
#25,075
Waardering
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ISBNs
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