Suzy Davies's Blog: Book News - Posts Tagged "dog-sledding"

The race is on - Anchorage to Nome,
across the Tundra, miles from home,
sled dogs hauling sleds through snow,
in the lands of eskimos!
Sinuous bodies seem to fly,
like a wolf-pack going by!
How they thunder as they run
steaming fur, in icy sun.

The race is on - Anchorage to Nome,
across the Tundra, miles from home,
racers say faster, and faster still,
the dogs are going for the kill,
over ice and frozen streams
over land of Inuit dreams,
slippery trails on the ground,
pelting paws thunder their sound.

The race is on Anchorage to Nome,
across the Tundra, miles from home,
sunburst golden gives respite
afore spring's coldest night of nights!
Noses pointed, icy breath,
heading home to get their rest,
bodies, legs and flying paws,
across the line to great applause!

The race was on, Anchorage to Nome,
and now the sled dogs all are home;
meat is plenty for them all,
winners, losers, victors all.
In soundless hours in the snow,
I can hear them as they go,
howls pierce the air like darts -
so fast they run, their beating hearts.

Copyright Suzy Davies, 2019. All Rights Reserved.

I'm super-excited the release of "The Call of The Wild" movie! It thrills me to be seeing the book unfold on the big screen.
Of course, my most recent book, "The Girl In The Red Cape," is an adventure with fairytale elements, set in Alaska. I'm looking forward to "seeing" Alaska in the film and comparing the kinds of snow scenes and settings the movie depicts to what I envisioned when I was creating my own story.
Of course, champion musher and winner of The Junior Iditarod, 2019, Anna Stephan, acted as a consultant for my book so that factual elements combine with my artistic vision, to create a fairytale fiction book for Mid Grade and their adults, with authentic elements of adventure.
"The Girl in the Red Cape" is illustrated by accomplished artist and illustrator, Michele Bourke, and has over thirty color illustrations which really give readers a feeling of magic, mysticism and adventure. She has really captured the wildness and beauty of nature waiting to be discovered in the Alaskan tundra.