About
Athird-generation native Arizonan, Susan Wells Bennett was born andraised in Phoenix. As a child, she wrote a letter to then-PresidentCarter that was published in a local daily newspaper. From then on, shewanted to be a writer when she grew up – that, or President. Atsixteen, she left Arizona to attend Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri,for two years. Returning to Arizona, she attended Arizona StateUniversity as an English major. She spent a fair amount of the nextdecade trying to escape the Southwest, but never succeeded.Susan workedin and around the real estate and home-building industries for themajority of the last two decades, a career that evolved into a positionas a writer and editor for one of the nation’s largest homebuilders. In2009, with the support of her husband, she began writing novelsfulltime. To date, she has completed four novels and is working on herfifth.She has no plans to run for political office in the near future.
My Fingerpaint Masterpiece Coloring Book
Description
<p>Have you ever seen a "work of art" worth millions, which looks like something your child just brought home from school?</p><p>The dual perspective of "Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder" and just a little bit of "The Emperor's New Clothes" is evident in this clever artwork story of a child who paints a fingerpaint print in class and then loses it in the wind on the way home.</p><p>Illustrated from the point of view of a child, whose identity is left to the imagination of the reader since all of the illustrations are what the child sees, the fingerpaint print is interpreted by official "judges" as well as by bystanders. Should people be influenced by what others see, or use their own self-esteem to make their own judgments? This coloring book version allows children to illustrate their own version of the book, and even to create a "masterpiece" of their own!</p><p>This is the fourth rhyming children's coloring book by this award-winning author, whose other bestselling books include David's ADHD, My Little Angel, The Golden Rule, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift.</p><p><strong>About The Author:</strong> Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won over 100 awards for her previous rhyming books and coloring books, and is also the author of 7 published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called "a modern day Dr. Seuss." - GTMA Review</p>
Story Behind The Book
This is an omnibus of the Brass Monkey Series, which includes Wild Life, Charmed Life, Night Life and New Life. This series follows the adventures of the denizens of the Brass Monkey Bar, on the outskirts of Sun City, a retirement community in Arizona.
