A DOG NAMED LEAF
By Allen Anderson (Globe Pequot Press, 224 page)

A DOG NAMED LEAF
A Dog Named Leaf ? BOOK REVIEWS:
?This touching, almost lyrical book [A Dog Named Leaf] is a very personal story bravely told by the author and his wife?? This is a lovely story that will uplift anyone who has ever loved a dog.?
?Amy Shojai, About.com Guide, December 27, 2012
Allen says, ?Thanks to a loving, intuitive, paper-chewing pup, I am alive and well today.?
?National Examiner, as told to L.A. Justice, December 17, 2012
??The story is about Allen and the dog?s healing process and how they helped each other.? In the Epilogue Allen writes about his and Leaf?s relationship, ?We are two souls who entered each other?s lives when we most needed the healing power of a human-animal friendship.??
?Heidi Skarie, Blue Star Visions, November 25, 2012
?The author of a series of animals books has written about the healing said he experienced with the help of an emotionally scarred adopted dog.?
?Sun-Sailor, November 29, 2012
?This is a story about the marvelous bond between humans and dogs as well as the healing power of love, which can truly make miracles.?
?CosmoDoggyLand Dog Magazine, November 2012
?I truly found a kindred spirit in Allen and Linda.? They believe, as I do, that we should always view our animal companions with respect and appreciation.? Because when you look into the eyes of an animal, what you will discover is a spiritual SOUL that is experiencing this lifetime as your dog, or cat, or horse.? For those of us who have witnessed and been forever blessed by an animal?s love, this if for you!? Enjoy.?
?Val Heart & Friends, November 2012
CosmoDoggyLand Dog Magazine ? A Dog Named Leaf is in the Top 10 in DoggyBooks, Pawblications For Dog Lovers
New book reviews coming from Best Friends Magazine (May-June) and Animal Wellness (Feb).
?Part ?Marley and Me? and part Jon Katz? the story is endearing, and the many photographs of Leaf running, swimming, and chasing a tennis ball in south Minneapolis are adorable.?
?Laurie Hertzel, ?The Browser? MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
?If you?ve ever doubted animals have souls, this book will open your heart and mind to truly believing we are all connected. You will never doubt again. Your life will be enriched far beyond what you could have ever imagined and you will have author Allen Anderson to thank for it.? A DOG NAMED LEAF is a great gift idea for the dog loving friends and family in your life!?
?Barbara Techel, Joyful Paws
?A DOG NAMED LEAF is a beautiful story told with honesty and depth. You?ll be changed by Allen and Leaf?s journey. This book will fill you with hope.?
?Peggy Frezon, Brooks Books ? Peggy?s Pet Place
?Take a break from life?s drama and venture into a world of Leaf, a rescued dog who have changed a couple?s life. Find out how rewarding adopting a dog can be, regardless of how impossible he may seem to take care of at first. Get the book [A Dog Named Leaf]and be inspired.?
?WHiMZ News, November 8, 2012
?Allen?s writing is able to draw the reader into some peak moments of challenge and choice in the life of both Leaf and himself, as a family. It is a rare glimpse into the deep workings of spirit through our animal human love bonds. It is one of the best examples of how we need one another to heal and that the commitment to love through all things brings forth the magic of miracles.?
?Donna Strong, AWARENESS MAGAZINE
??The authorial voice is distinctly Allen?s. In 2006, Allen learns that he has an unruptured brain aneurysm, seven months after the family adopts a black cocker spaniel, Leaf, from a shelter. Throughout, he clearly conveys the affection that he and his dog have for each other and how that affection proved crucial to his recovery from brain surgery??
?PUBLISHER?S WEEKLY, September 24, 2012
Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/angelanimals/2012/12/30/a-dog-named-leaf-book-reviews/
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Starting in 1902, patriarch Cromwell Wall began recording family get-togethers and events on wax cylinder phonographs by Columbia Home Grand Graphophone. Cromwell Wall was a civil engineer who worked in a London firm his father had co-founded in the late 19th century. He and his wife Minnie had nine children and lived in a home called Lyndale in the London suburb of New Southgate. Minnie?s parents and Wall?s parents lived in the same neighborhood. The families along with cousins and uncles got together on the holidays and made merry, merry which Cromwell saw fit to record on carefully labeled wax cylinders.
moved outside their home, Wall packed the equipment in the baby?s stroller and rolled it along with them to various events. The pram phonograph traveled the neighborhood to the in-law?s house (Toppesfield), Cromwell Wall?s parents? house (the Oaks), to St. James the Great Church and once to Grove Road Baptist Chapel to record the bells peeling on New Year?s.
The wax cylinders are easily damaged beyond retrieval and require particular knowledge and care to maintain for more than a century. The few home recordings that have survived are small snippets of sounds with almost no identifying information of accompanying detail. Fresh cylinders were expensive, so people often scraped off the grooves of one recording to reuse them for a new recording. Cromwell Wall kept all of his untouched. He labeled the cylinders in detail and subsequent generations kept them safe and dry even when the phonograph was broken and they didn?t really know what a treasure they had.
The cylinders and phonograph were donated to the museum by David Brown, son of Muriel Brown, the second youngest of the nine children of Cromwell and Minnie Wall. He stored them in the attic and donated them when he came across them again four years ago, not having any idea if there was still any sound on the cylinders that could be retrieved.
It brought back some great memories for Oliver Wall, one of Cromwell?s grandchildren.

