‘Pokey The Playful Whale: (who wanted to live on land)’: LaVerne Byrd Smith Reinvents True Story of Pokey the Whale in New Children’s Book

     

    RICHMOND, Va., March 30, 2010 — In her full-color illustrated new children’s book, “Pokey The Playful Whale: (who wanted to live on land)” (published by AuthorHouse), LaVerne Byrd Smith re-imagines the true adventures of a lively whale that made headlines in April of 1966 wh…

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    ‘Buckley’s Story’: Lessons from a Feline Master Teacher

     

    HERNDON, Va., Nov. 3, 2009 — In the spring of 2005, author Ingrid King met Buckley.  All it took for King, a long-time veterinary hospital manager, was one look at the small homeless cat, and she fell in love. Hard. And Fast. Soon, her life was transformed. In King’s warmhearted memoir, ̶…

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