Brave Ulysses Books
BUB is a little publishing outfit in Asheville. It started with a couple of best of collections of my weekly, nationally syndicated commentaries: Duck Soup—Essays on the Submerging Culture.
Then came Finding your way in Asheville, the best-selling guide to the Paris of the South.
Now we've published Madeleine Claire and the Dinosaur by Jerald Pope, a completely delightful picture book about a little girl who wishes she could have a little dinosaur for a companion.
You can order here or via Booksense or Amazon. I've pasted a couple of reviews below. For more info about BUB or these books, click here.
-Cecil Bothwell, publisher
Madeleine Claire and the Dinosaur is great reading and imaginative fun for children ages two to seven. 'The story is sweet and light and shows children being responsible and living in their imaginations.'
-Barbara Hootman, Black Mountain News
I love children's books that make me smile and reminisce about my own childhood or my children when they were growing. The little dinosaur in this book makes having a pet dinosaur seem possible. Your children will love it. You will love it.
- N. Mason on Amazon.com
While [Finding your way in Asheville] includes the sort of information you'd expect from a tourist guide, it also contains fascinating glimpses of Asheville political and natural history, and takes jabs at local icons and over-hyped destinations. This is not the sort of guide that you'll get from the Chamber of Commerce, this one is about the real city and the reasons that we locals love it.
- Mary on Amazon.com
Cecil Bothwell's essays are a joy to read. They're short and informative, entertaining and challenging, frightening and hopeful. I read them weekly in his e-mail newsletter Duck Soup, and now he has anthologized some of them into Gorillas in the Myth: A Duck Soup Reader.
- Larry Crenshaw, Point
In Gorillas in the Myth, Cecil Bothwell gives readers 40 essays, short and pithy observations on the environment, the natural world, corporations and modern technology. Bothwell’s wit and his eye for the absurd make for an interesting collection.
- Jeff Minnick, Smoky Mountain News
