About
Carol A. Strickland is the author of two novels, Touch of Danger, from Cerridwen Press, and Burgundy and Lies, from Lulu. She is unusually obsessed with Wonder Woman and has a column, "Star-Spangled Panties," that runs on Comic Book Resources.
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
Historical romance is so fun, but I always enjoyed the ones with a more modern viewpoint more. They made me imagine: what if that was me back then? What if there were no lords or ladies in sight, that this was a story about real people who had to work for a living? What if they spoke like people talk instead of in flowery historic phrases where you had to turn a sentence inside-out for it to make sense, and where people never said what they meant to say?
I had a lot of fun writing about Abbie and her mounting problems, as well as her wonderful guilt complex, based on how she just knew she was going to burn in Hell--or at least wait a literal eternity in Purgatory--for the decisions she had to make. Jean-Marc is as much of a goofy scoundrel as I could imagine and still have him be good potential husband material. And his brother--! Such fun to create a coffee-addicted workaholic during the Renaissance!
Burgundy and Lies is available in mass market paperback, trade paperback, ebook form... even large-print form.
