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Why I wrote The Adventures of Little Buddy and Grizz
Why I wrote The Adventures of Little Buddy and Grizz
I wanted to take a modern day setting and a writing style that goes back in time before Yogi Bear and Charlotte’s Web to the time of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. I did not want illustrations to distract who the characters were. I wanted the reader to be Buddy and experience for themselves, the adventures as they unfolded around them. I wanted to bring to life the adventures of a 10-year old boy who becomes lost in Yellowstone National Park and meets a gigantic grizzly that can talk. Simplistic in nature but full of adventure and humor the story spans 12 years of the boy’s life. Buddy at age 10, age 12 and again when he is 22 and returns with his wife knowing that the animals are aging and this will be their last encounter together.
I tried to bring to life a story that had good morals such as catching a poacher and bringing attention to a creator of all things. Using basic instincts that are essential to surviving in the forest. How funny it would be to an animal knowing we have to cook fish, and do other things a human does. How important it would be if animals could talk and tell us what they know about humans and about nature. I wanted the reader to think for them-selves what the actual size of Grizz was, what Buddy looked like, how beautiful Gus the wolf was with his white fur.
I went against the odds to write The Adventures of Little Buddy and Grizz, knowing that children adventure books are mostly illustrations and some characters look like cartoon characters. Think how relaxed we are when we watch television. We don’t have to think, the image and sound are right there, we don’t have to do anything. When we listen to the radio, we have to think a little, because we don’t have an image so we have to think of an image, but we have the sound. When we read a book we have to really think, because there is no image or sound, and we have to create both an image and sound. If we look at these three items differently with books first, radio second and television last. Our family traditions were great, when families gathered around and mothers and fathers talked about God’s values, and not man’s values, and told their children that they loved them.
Families gathered around and discussed the days events and focused on what was good wholesome, positive, entertainment and reading. Even a book of fiction can bring humor and comfort to a world that is often seen in a negative and troubling light. I believe with good reading, interesting stories, and communicating with each other, families will be able to communicate better with each other and others around them, making a better family, community, and world today. It can start with a book, what ever it is, a Bible, non-fiction, or a fiction book.
I wanted to take a modern day setting and a writing style that goes back in time before Yogi Bear and Charlotte’s Web to the time of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. I did not want illustrations to distract who the characters were. I wanted the reader to be Buddy and experience for themselves, the adventures as they unfolded around them. I wanted to bring to life the adventures of a 10-year old boy who becomes lost in Yellowstone National Park and meets a gigantic grizzly that can talk. Simplistic in nature but full of adventure and humor the story spans 12 years of the boy’s life. Buddy at age 10, age 12 and again when he is 22 and returns with his wife knowing that the animals are aging and this will be their last encounter together.
I tried to bring to life a story that had good morals such as catching a poacher and bringing attention to a creator of all things. Using basic instincts that are essential to surviving in the forest. How funny it would be to an animal knowing we have to cook fish, and do other things a human does. How important it would be if animals could talk and tell us what they know about humans and about nature. I wanted the reader to think for them-selves what the actual size of Grizz was, what Buddy looked like, how beautiful Gus the wolf was with his white fur.
I went against the odds to write The Adventures of Little Buddy and Grizz, knowing that children adventure books are mostly illustrations and some characters look like cartoon characters. Think how relaxed we are when we watch television. We don’t have to think, the image and sound are right there, we don’t have to do anything. When we listen to the radio, we have to think a little, because we don’t have an image so we have to think of an image, but we have the sound. When we read a book we have to really think, because there is no image or sound, and we have to create both an image and sound. If we look at these three items differently with books first, radio second and television last. Our family traditions were great, when families gathered around and mothers and fathers talked about God’s values, and not man’s values, and told their children that they loved them.
Families gathered around and discussed the days events and focused on what was good wholesome, positive, entertainment and reading. Even a book of fiction can bring humor and comfort to a world that is often seen in a negative and troubling light. I believe with good reading, interesting stories, and communicating with each other, families will be able to communicate better with each other and others around them, making a better family, community, and world today. It can start with a book, what ever it is, a Bible, non-fiction, or a fiction book.
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