A Cat Named Clyde (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780941283441)

Ellen Shelton has spent a lifetime teaching, mentoring, and working with young people. She mastered French at the Sorbonne in Paris, and later taught French to High-School students in Ouray Colorado. She also designed and directed a film program for young people (studying, analyzing and editing film) for the Telluride Mountainfilm festival. Ellen has lived with, and said goodbye to, a number of family pets. And she has thought long and lovingly of the journey that their essence, their substance and their spirit then make in this natural world. The idea of transformation comforted her young daughters, and she hopes that the story of Clyde may help other children see the death of a pet as not quite so final. Today Ellen lives in Bend, Oregon, with her writer husband Peter. Ellen's collaborator, painter Barbara Hudin, who illustrated this book, also lives and paints in Bend Oregon, where her work can be seen at the Tumalo Art Gallery.