Wilhelmina Goes Wandering is based on the true story of a runaway cow in Connecticut. For five months in 2011, the 800-pound Black Angus was seen around Milford, Orange, and New Haven, hanging out and traveling with a herd of deer. When she is eventually captured and relocated to an animal sanctuary in Oxford, Wilhelmina finds that her urge for adventures has been curbed by knowing she is finally accepted and loved by her new farmer friend Betty. Five- to nine-year-old readers (grownups, too ) will fall in love with Wilhelmina and her animal and human friends, brought to colorful life in the...

Francais: Wilhelmina va errante est base sur l'histoire vraie d'une vache fugueuse dans le Connecticut. En 2011, la vache noire de race Angus de plus de 360 kilos a ete apercue pendant cinq mois en compagnie d'un troupeau de cerfs autour de Milford, Orange et New Haven. Lorsqu'elle a finalement ete capturee et installee dans une reserve pour animaux a Oxford, Wilhelmina a constate que son envie devorante d'aventures avait peu a peu disparu car elle etait enfin adoptee et aimee par sa nouvelle amie fermiere, Betty. En chemin, notre heroine bovine apprend a accepter les differences qui existent...

Tough Love is a collection of weekly newspaper columns, front-page feature articles, and other commentary by a longtime Washington, DC reporter who returned home to Norwich, Connecticut. Planning a second career and a new life, the author instead found his journalists instincts at full alert as he watched--often incredulously--as the citys leaders grasped at one plan after another to save the city. Tough Love is more than the story--stories, really--of one old American city; its a close-up look at what has been called the other America, the left-behind hometowns that made the nation...