shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com December 25, 2018 • Page 9 LEGO Celebration Set For Yankton Library Dec. 27 The Bookworm This Donkey Tale May Not Be For Everyone “Smart A$$: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own” by Margaret Winslow; © 2018, New World Library. 277 pages ——— BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER A dog just wouldn’t do. Cats make you achoo! You don’t want a bird, turtle, goldfish, and nothing that hisses. Nope, the pet you want is much more unique, and in the new book “Smart A$$” by Margaret Winslow, you’ll need to be stubborn about it. When she was just 3 years old, Margaret Winslow saw a burro in a Christmas catalog, and for many Christmases afterward, she begged her parents for the pet. Alas, she got a stuffed donkey one year, and it sufficed. Fast-forward a few decades and Winslow was a professor, a geologist and was married to an oceanographer who was often gone for months at a time. She was thinking about “the next phase of [her] life,” when she recalled seeing donkeys and children while in the Dominican Republic. They reminded her of her childhood desire. Winslow loaded up on donkey-related publications and started researching. The first time she saw Caleb, she was shocked: he was pure white and “huge” with long, furry ears and a cacophonic bray that carried far. He was a jester and a pester, charming and goofy but with that well-known stubborn streak firmly in place. Winslow was in love. She paid for Caleb and a saddle, and took both to an upstate New York stable that specialized in training donkeys. She left him there, dreaming of long rides in idyllic still balky and had taken to nipping and kicking. He was capable of seriously hurting someone; he’d done it to Winslow. Caleb needed a new home — but who would take a shonky donkey? One of two things is going to happen when you read “Smart A$$.” Either you’re going to love it, or you’re going to hate it. There is no in-between. You’ll fall into the first category if you’ve ever had a pet that exasperates you to the point of screaming, making In the you love the animal even more. That never-give-up feeling of Love Despite runs fiercely through this book, and author Margaret Winslow’s stories are easy commiseration. The ending here will give you heart. But beware. Here’s the second camp, and it’ll make you cringe: Winslow In Print and Online!• Call 665-5884 writes about the use of crops, whips, sharp spurs and a bit that she acknowledges hurt her donkey. That, too, runs throughout the book and while they’re meadows astride her “trail buddy.” common, and maybe even needed, it At mid-winter break, she returned to doesn’t Book 67 make them easy to read about. Easy Sudoku Puzzles roadcaster ress by KrazyDad the stable and prepared to learn how to Hee-naw. ride her donkey. 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