About
Marty McGee Bennett’s first llama jumped offthe back of a pickup truck and into her heart in 1981. Since then Martyhas devoted her professional life to the well being of llamas and alpacas andthe education of camelid enthusiasts. Marty brings a variety of experienceand qualifications to her work with camelids, including a B.S. degree in AnimalBehavior. Marty’s combination of TTEAM (the work developed by LindaTellington-Jones), with the principals of balance and leverage and a secondsense with both camelids and people make “Camelidynamics” the world’s mostpopular, and enduring training/handling system for camelids.
Her clinics, books and videos have helpedthousands of llama and alpaca owners more fully understand, appreciate andenjoy this magical animal. Marty’s most recent book “The CamelidCompanion” published in
2001 has received rave reviews inpublications worldwide. Conducting hundreds of clinics in North America andaround the world have kept Marty on the road for much of the past 25 years.Marty’s work with camelids is popular with owners and veterinarians alike. She has taught the principles of animalhandling to veterinarians and at veterinary schools around the county.
Marty her husbandBrad and their family of four-leggeds have a farm in Bend, Oregon that is thehome of the Camelidynamics Training Center and the base of operations for theCamelidynamics Guild. Formore information about the guild, Marty, clinics and equipment log on to www.camelidynamics.com
My Fingerpaint Masterpiece Coloring Book
Description
<p>Have you ever seen a "work of art" worth millions, which looks like something your child just brought home from school?</p><p>The dual perspective of "Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder" and just a little bit of "The Emperor's New Clothes" is evident in this clever artwork story of a child who paints a fingerpaint print in class and then loses it in the wind on the way home.</p><p>Illustrated from the point of view of a child, whose identity is left to the imagination of the reader since all of the illustrations are what the child sees, the fingerpaint print is interpreted by official "judges" as well as by bystanders. Should people be influenced by what others see, or use their own self-esteem to make their own judgments? This coloring book version allows children to illustrate their own version of the book, and even to create a "masterpiece" of their own!</p><p>This is the fourth rhyming children's coloring book by this award-winning author, whose other bestselling books include David's ADHD, My Little Angel, The Golden Rule, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift.</p><p><strong>About The Author:</strong> Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won over 100 awards for her previous rhyming books and coloring books, and is also the author of 7 published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called "a modern day Dr. Seuss." - GTMA Review</p>
Story Behind The Book
If you have gotten this far then I am assuming that you worry a bit about your weight or would like to lose some. I have struggled with my weight since I was a teenager, I have lost hundreds of pounds and unfortunately found them over and over. . I have never been obese but I have sure been called a BIG girl bumping 200 pounds at one stage. I am 5’10” and my weight has fluctuated between 30 and 50 pounds my whole life. I have always either been on a diet or unhappy with my weight. I have never weighed the same for more than a few weeks at a time. I was a “manic-depressive dieter”. I was either manically dieting or depressed that I was overweight.
On December 28, 2007, quite by accident I made a discovery about weight maintenance that would change my life forever.
The secret isn’t about what to eat or what not to eat, it doesn’t involve special meal plans or pills. Losing weight is calories in and energy expended- we all know how to lose weight. It is keeping it off that is the big deal the grand prize, the big deal, the brass ring. Learning to maintain your weight is more mental than anything else. What I figured out will help you win the mental game of weight control. Really! I know that repeated failure has made many of you very leery of trying to lose weight again. It is too hard. Let me and animals show you a different approach to getting yourself into balance and staying there. This book about animals and how working with and understanding animals can help you understand your own personal animal... your own body. Let your dog or your horse your llama or alpaca teach you how balance really works and then apply those lessons to your life.
The new mantra is diets don't work and that is surely true- learning to eat in balance is a skill and getting good at takes practice and intention. My book will help you learn the skill of weight maintenance.
Reviews
Hi Marty,<br />My book arrived yesterday and I can't put it down!!<br />You are a genius! Alpacas really are a metaphor for life!<br />Your wisdom applies to every aspect of my life these days! Especially parenting!
