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Foolish Diversion
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Howdy from Catfish County. Here's our new portrait, whadaya think? Guess what, now you can buy Foolish Diversion: A Triple T and Herman Mystery. This is a young adult mystery series or it could even be a children's mystery series if you read well. For all the scoop and to read an excerpt go to: www.barnesandnoble.com www.communitypresshome.com www.yabookscentral.com www.amazon.com or google jeanne sievert or foolish diversion or triple t and herman mysteries or children mystery series, young adult mystery or juvenile mystery Triple T and Herman have so many links now they don't know what to do. Yea! Triple T and Herman have a MySpace page. Find us at www.myspace.com/tripletandhermanmysteries.com. or write the author at jmsievert@bellsouth.net Triple T and Herman are blogging on myspace! Guess what, the people at www.yabookscentral.com are really cool. You should check out their site. We're on there! Keep reading cause soon we're going to post the recipe for Uncle Sammy's Maple Nut Scones.
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| | In the tradition of C. S. Lewis, A.A.Milne and George Orwell... Jeanne M. Sievert’s brilliant first young adult mystery, Foolish Diversion, uses animal kingdom as allegory to mirror the best and worst of contemporary society. More than mere lighthearted prose about two frogs, this sizzling commentary on politics uses dazzling wit and dry humor to create a mythical world where the struggle of right against might is a source of both hope and delight.
Two frogs face a moment of destiny. Terrence Tree Toad and Herman Hoppalott don’t know it, but it is up to them to discover the Truth and save Catfish County!
The county is in the grip of a terrible drought! The river—the life line between all the creatures in this peaceful community—is drying up. But, is the Diversion Project really the answer? Even if it destroys half of the homes in the county?
Wealthy shippers, the Catfish brothers, and the boorish Beaverman union—traditional enemies—are pushing the Diversion Project? Why? Someone is stealing Boulan berries from reclusive birds in the Old Forest. Why? A gentleman-wanna-be weasel wants a rundown estate, useful only for growing straggly blackberries? Why?
Investigative reporters Triple T and Herman are forced to become amateur detectives to solve this mystery.
On the way, they encounter a murderous Cat, oddly-plumed Tu-Tu birds, a treacherous climb up the steep Misty Mountain to meet a reclusive guru. And the more they find out, the more things just “don’t add up.”
As the clues pile up, Triple T fears they are running out of time. Herman is worried, too: worried that all this detecting will interfere with what’s really important—a picnic lunch of cucumber sandwiches and homemade oatmeal cookies.
Can the detective duo get to the bottom of the Diversion Project or will greed and fear change life in Catfish County forever?
Follow the clues along with Triple T and Herman and find yourself laughing all the while. |
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T&H's Booth at the Violet Crown Festival 05/05/07 Book Reviews: ________________________________________________________________ Imaginative and suffused with folksy wisdom. "Foolish Diversion: A Triple T And Herman Mystery" is an engaging, Swiftian political allegory masquerading as a children's book. Not that children won't enjoy it; they most assuredly will. Like J.K. Rowling, first novelist Jeanne Sievert has penned a tale that crosses age categories to delight and enthrall anyone with a sense of humor and wonder." Pamela Marcantel Author of: An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc
(St. Martin's Press, 1997).
________________________________________________________________ (Foolish Diversion) reads kind of like someone lifted characters from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows and put them in a James Cagney movie with a Capra-esque social consciousness, but it all works quite delightfully. The characters are varied and intriguing. Even the minor characters are deftly drawn and interesting. Take, for example, pretentious Winston, newly rich, dapper dresser (complete with shiny tophat) and malapropist: ("Welcome to my humble chapeau!" he tells the intrepid reporters who have come to write a feature on his blackberry juice business). Small details like Triple T’s love of a cuppa tea and Herman’s penchant for oatmeal cookies add a charming verisimilitude to the goings-on. Filled with enough tangles and twists in the plot to keep even adult readers guessing, and prose which doesn’t talk down to its targeted audience, Foolish Diversion: A Triple T and Herman Mystery is a clever and fun read.
Jackie Walsh Author of: Restoration Adaptations of Four of Shakespeare’s Comedies
(Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000).
Professor of English at McNeese State University
________________________________________________________________ This charming book presents a full cast of vivid characters in a tale of civic responsibility and political conniving. In the end it is dedicated to “common sense and common good” in the face of public fear and private greed, but along the way there is a rich mixture of news, reporting, wine making, Julius Caesar, ship wreck, and a squirrel afraid of heights.
Bob Cooper Author of "The Camp: A Memory Book 1941-1945" (Writers House, 1988)
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