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    Sam and Socrates
    Sam and Socrates
    Sam and Socrates
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    Sam and Socrates

    By Katie Byrne and John Russell

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    Sam is an intelligent and inquisitive eight year old who loves her cat, books and afternoon outings with her father. One day, during one of their walks, Sam and her father sit by a tree and read together. Feeling a little tired, she puts her head on his shoulder and drifts off to sleep. Now dreaming, she is once again at the tree, this time with her father and her cat, Socrates. Lazily relaxing on Sams lap, Socrates is suddenly awakened to the presence of a mouse and immediately leaps off in pursuit of his prey. Calling to him, Sam jumps to her feet and runs to a nearby wall that he has jumped over. As she is about to climb over, an Owl suddenly appears before her. May I help you? he asks politely. At first, a little surprised to hear an Owl talk, she explains that she is going to retrieve her cat who has jumped over the wall while chasing a mouse. What follows next is an adventure into a world filled with animals that talk, learning, inspiration and all manner of wonderous things that only a childs imagination could
    make memorable. So, sit back in your favourite reading chair and prepare to be taken on a journey filled with friendship and love......it will be a journey you will not soon forget.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 28, 2012
    ISBN9781462068319
    Sam and Socrates
    Author

    Katie Byrne

    John Russell is a freelance photographer who has also written a play, and a book of poems; Sam and Socrates is his first published work. His next project will centre around one of the characters from Sam and Socrates: Lenny the Lion, who, through a series of books, will take children on an odyssey filled with fun and learning about the world around them. John Russell lives in Toronto. Katie Byrne is in her fourth year at the Ontario College of Art and Design. This is the first book she has illustrated and, thanks to its success which is spreading rapidly by word of mouth, she is currently sifting through a myriad number of job offers.

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      Sam and Socrates - Katie Byrne

      Foreword

      A Letter to Parents by the Author.

      ‘Attention, approval, admiration, approbation, and applause. Five things every child ought to be given if you want them to become healthy, well adjusted adults. The brilliant and talented George Carlin gave us seven words you couldn’t say on television, but here, he offers five that can make all the difference to a child’s emotional growth and well being. In the last century, humanity was torn apart by two carastrophic world wars; the second and most lethal of them led by two men who were, as children, victims of brutal parental violence. Adolf Hitler, his heart filled with the dream of being an artist, had it crushed by a cold violent and domineering father. Like Hitler, Josef Stalin was also the victim of a father whose abuse was equally violent. When Stalin was a boy, his father beat him so severly he broke his arm, and, because it never healed properly, it was slightly deformed and thus became shorter than the other. As an adult, Stalin, like Hitler, got his revenge on his father by orchestrating the greatest act of mass murder ever witnessed in human history: twenty million people (some historians say the number could be higher) were put to death by this man made monster who, as a small boy was constantly humiliated, shamed, mistreated; physically and mentally abused to the point that he became so paranoid that he never again trusted anyone and saw everyone around him as an enemy. A warning that history allows itself to repeat again and again but fails to listen to, yet is simple to understand: When the once powerless become powerful, there can only be one denouement, and in a war that lasted 2,174 days, the numbers for the dead…numbers unimaginably inconceivable: came to, (soldiers and civilians) more than forty six million. Add to these the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Turks in 1915, and the first half of

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