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Nebula

by Bob Jadis

22 pages; Saddle stitched; catalogue #04-1353; ISBN 1-4120-3525-2; US$13.50, C$14.99, EUR11.00, £7.50

"Starlight", a retired racehorse, in foal, guides a farm family, a former jockey and high school teacher to the winter night skies which might hold equine ancestral secrets!

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About the Book

"Starlight", an adopted retired racehorse finds a home on a country farm. While "in foal" she is observed by the family behaving strangely with visits to the paddock staring and whinnying at the night sky.

For answers, Connor and Beth ask their parents to visit Frankie daFly, a former jockey. Frankie, who understands horses, believes he knows the answer, contacts a high school teacher whose hobby is astronomy. A large telescope is placed where "Starlight" stands and the gas cloud Horsehead Nebula is sited.

The teacher expalins astronomy in youthful terms and specifically deals with the Horsehead nebula. The jockey speaks about a possible ancestral connection between horses and the universe. "Starlight's" colt quickly becomes part of the paddock night sky affinity. The colt is named "Nebula" and the children receive Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation pictures of the Horsehead Nebula. Along with 10 coloured illustrations, a site locater map is included of Orion and the Horsehead Nebula.

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About the Author

Bob Jadis was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. As a youth, he attended Saturday morning children's art classes at Acadia University. Realizing that cartooning was his medium, he received a scholarship from the Nova Scotia School of Art in Halifax when he was 19 years old. Remaining but one year, he continued to draw cartoons while serving for 25 years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For the last 10 years of his working career he was Director of Security Operations at the Privy Council Office in Canada's Capital, Ottawa. He and his wife Derrice retired to White Rock/South Surrey, British Columbia in 1999. Always drawing, Bob created a cartoon panel for a thoroughbred and standardbred racetracks called "Horse Wit". From that cartoon, Frankie daFly came to life and has become the central character in the children's book Nebula. This is his first book. His second children's book Lamalee, again featuring Frankie daFly, is already on the drawing table.

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Excerpts

Horses have always fascinated me. As a young boy I clearly remember seeing a horse standing alone in a field, looking up at the night sky. There seemed to be a magical quality about it. Now many years later that childhood recollection inspired me to write this story for our grandchildren.

-B.J.

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Catalogue Information

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