How It Was with Dooms

How It Was with Dooms
Author Carol Cawthra Hopcraft
Xan Hopcraft
Country United States
Language English
Genre Children's novel
Publisher Margaret K. McElderry
Publication date
1997
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 64 (first edition)
ISBN 0-689-81091-1
OCLC 34190718
599.74/428
LC Class QL737.C23 H655 1997

Dooms is a children's book dictated to Carol Cawthra Hopcraft by her young son Xan Hopcraft. It tells the true story of the young boy's friendship with an orphaned cheetah on the family's game ranch in Kenya. Carol Hopcraft, a wildlife photographer, provided photographs for the book, while her son provided illustrations. It was published in 1997 by Margaret K. McElderry, a division of Simon and Schuster. (64 pages, ISBN 0-689-81091-1)[1][2][3][4] The book was loosely adapted into a film in 2005, under the title Duma.[5][6]

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  1. "How It Was with Dooms: A True Story from Africa". Natural History. 1997.
  2. How It Was with Dooms. Margaret K. McElderry. 1997. ISBN 0-689-81091-1.
  3. Dargis, Manohla. The New York Times http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/288763/Duma/overview. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Dargis, Manohla (30 September 2005). "Inching Toward Adulthood With a Cheetah for a Friend". The New York Times.