Waltz on the Wild Side: An Animal Lover's Journal

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Summary: Excellent book!!
Review: I am reading and enjoying this book for the second time! I highly recommend it. The author has a special way of making you feel exactly what she is feeling and taking you along with her. I have never enjoyed a book as much and will be adding this to my gift list for friends.
I hope there will be a sequel!

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Summary: Delightful in these days of strife
Review: I found this book to be a wonderful read for adults and the plus is it is outstanding to sit down with your children and enjoy it together. This book certainly opens your eyes to the world around you that is never seen. The "stop and smell the coffee" certainly applies. I have personally learned more about life from these 135 pages than in my 61 years on this beautiful planet. Hopefully May Lenzer has done something for us all to maintain the integrity and beauty of the hidden world beneath our very feet.

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Summary: Delightful in these days of strife
Review: If any of you have a special child or grandchild who enjoys reading or being read to about the life of animals, this little book is a joy and a delight. The author paints vivid pictures of beatles and mice, ravens and whales, toads and parrots, snakes and tortoises in locales from New York to California, Florida to Oregon. I must disclose that she is my cousin, May Lattanzio Lenzer...and a gifted writer. The book will be treasured by children who are held on laps and who are holding children on laps...the young and the young at heart...those who remember nature walks with their own parents and those special moments of discovery. May brings alive those patches of paradise that have not yet been paved over into parking lots .
Michele Zimmerman

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Summary: Review of May Lenzer's book, WALTZ ON THE WILD SIDE
Review: If you thought opossums are just road kill on Florida roadways, you will never view wildlife quite the same after reading May Lenzer's WALTZ ON THE WILDSIDE. She captures the personalities of woodland critters with amazing insight and allows the reader to see them through her eyes.

You will meet Popeye, the desert tortoise who recognizes his name and comes when called. He only eats gourmet turtle food and lets the family cat ride around the kitchen on his back. There are Jekyll, the thief, and Orville, the firebug, two abandoned ravens unable to fly, who live in the Lenzer household until they are ready to be released.

She spots a coyote and his mate, with their two pups, along the roadside during a severe snowstorm. The female is black and white and appears to be mostly sheepdog. The fate of the coyote and his mixed breed wife and children are a testament to romance even in the animal kingdom

This is a handbook on wildlife, but mystery, intrigue, romance and murder are all included in captivating detail. The night screams of a creature that stalks her; an unexplained, horrendous wound on the back of one of her donkeys; a healthy squirrel found dead in its cage, are just a few of the stories Lenzer shares with us. Her account of murder on Howard's Creek scratches the conscience of even those who are ambivalent about animals.

Bonds are strong between the animal foundlings and their surrogate mother. WALTZ ON THE WILD SIDE brings a lump to the throat when it is time to release the animals into their natural habitat. May Lenzer gives her charges her blessing and watches as they return to their kingdom to live as nature intended. From ants, beetles and bats to squirrels, opossoms and whales, she runs the gamut of American wildlife from California to the Florida Keys. The world is made a better place through her caring and love for nature's children.

This book, charmingly illustrated by artist, Maggie Guinn, is a classic. It should be included on all bookshelves and read by generations to come.

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Summary: Waltz On The Wild Side by May Lenzer
Review: In one word, this book is delightful! If you are an animal lover, Waltz On The Wild Side will make you laugh, make you cry, and teach you something along the way. It is a work of art wriiten so descriptively that you are transported into every story. I could visualize in my mind the pictures the written word had painted on every page.