Animals Without Backbones California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (2011) On the day of Barack

On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration

Is it possible to lead well when you're not the top dog

The people he meets along the way

William Shakespeare and Mark Twain

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas

Animals Without Backbones California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (2011) On the day of BarackVolume One of a double volume. The story of the amoebas, sponges, corals, jellyfishes, worms of all kinds, starfishes, insects, and the variety of other invertebrates which make up 95 per cent of the animal kingdom. Sixty four pages of illustrations. Published 1951, Pelican Book. Binding of book is intact and fragile. Heavy shelfwear, foxing, some fraying and several waterstains on covers of book. Heavy tanning and foxing on edges of book. Moderate