What Are People Saying About Wheezer?
1) A great interview at Laurie's Non-Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews
2) 5.0 out of 5 stars "wheezer and the painted frog", December 28, 2011
By
C. J. CASE-LENG - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Wheezer & the Painted Frog: Mysteries From the Trail of Tears (Paperback)
What a fantastic ending - an ending that has turned out just as I wanted, with a shared future for Jackson, Sasa, Anna and Wheezer, together with the knowledge that the future of the Cherokee is in safe hands! Part of me is desolate that the story has come to an end - more please Kitty!!!
3)Kitty, I enjoyed your book. My husband is now wrapped up in it. Your writing amazes me in that your style changes to the character you are portraying. I have not seen that in another writer. I don't know if you planned it that way, or if you are so close to your characters that it just happens. It is unique. I am not sure how to describe what you do, but each level seems to be from that character's level of thought. Here are the pictures I took at OWL. Wishing you a safe and happy holiday. Zona
4) Loren Gruber Professor of English and Professor of Mass Communication at Missouri Valley College
The Ink N Beans online sample pages of Kitty Sutton's Wheezer and the Painted Frog reveal characters through their emotional responses, both spoken and narrated. The opening chapter switches between those of a fleeing, terrified dog and those of thirteen-year-old Sasa ("Swan"), a Cherokee girl.
Sutton aptly narrates what the dog hears and feels: snapping twigs, tearing vines, burrs, small crawling things in his hair, his burning lungs.
Sasa's pleading for decent―adequate―food from the corpulent Indian agent, Mr. Edwards, contrasts with her father's hunger strike and her little brother's wasting away.
In the second chapter, Jackson Halley's sympathy for the Cherokee comes to light during his conversation with Colonel Dumont Jeffries who disdains them. Halley, himself, had emigrated from Georgia to western Arkansas. But he lived in a mansion, while the Cherokee, driven from their Georgia homeland, barely subsisted in Indian Territory, the land we know today as Oklahoma.
In sum, the points of view―the dog's, Sasa's, and Halley's―establish what should prove to be an interesting clash between two factions: the likes of Mr. Edwards and Colonel Jeffries on the one hand, and, on the other, Sasa, Jackson Halley, and those like him.
It remains to be seen how Wheezer (originally Halley's dog named Jack) will link the four humans in this novel, the first of a series.
2) 5.0 out of 5 stars "wheezer and the painted frog", December 28, 2011
By
C. J. CASE-LENG - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Wheezer & the Painted Frog: Mysteries From the Trail of Tears (Paperback)
What a fantastic ending - an ending that has turned out just as I wanted, with a shared future for Jackson, Sasa, Anna and Wheezer, together with the knowledge that the future of the Cherokee is in safe hands! Part of me is desolate that the story has come to an end - more please Kitty!!!
3)Kitty, I enjoyed your book. My husband is now wrapped up in it. Your writing amazes me in that your style changes to the character you are portraying. I have not seen that in another writer. I don't know if you planned it that way, or if you are so close to your characters that it just happens. It is unique. I am not sure how to describe what you do, but each level seems to be from that character's level of thought. Here are the pictures I took at OWL. Wishing you a safe and happy holiday. Zona
4) Loren Gruber Professor of English and Professor of Mass Communication at Missouri Valley College
The Ink N Beans online sample pages of Kitty Sutton's Wheezer and the Painted Frog reveal characters through their emotional responses, both spoken and narrated. The opening chapter switches between those of a fleeing, terrified dog and those of thirteen-year-old Sasa ("Swan"), a Cherokee girl.
Sutton aptly narrates what the dog hears and feels: snapping twigs, tearing vines, burrs, small crawling things in his hair, his burning lungs.
Sasa's pleading for decent―adequate―food from the corpulent Indian agent, Mr. Edwards, contrasts with her father's hunger strike and her little brother's wasting away.
In the second chapter, Jackson Halley's sympathy for the Cherokee comes to light during his conversation with Colonel Dumont Jeffries who disdains them. Halley, himself, had emigrated from Georgia to western Arkansas. But he lived in a mansion, while the Cherokee, driven from their Georgia homeland, barely subsisted in Indian Territory, the land we know today as Oklahoma.
In sum, the points of view―the dog's, Sasa's, and Halley's―establish what should prove to be an interesting clash between two factions: the likes of Mr. Edwards and Colonel Jeffries on the one hand, and, on the other, Sasa, Jackson Halley, and those like him.
It remains to be seen how Wheezer (originally Halley's dog named Jack) will link the four humans in this novel, the first of a series.