About
Bookstoreowner, author, professional book reviewer, and coach, Bob Spear is ahistorical performer (Buffalo Bill Cody and Burl Ives), a storyteller,and professional musician. He borrows from his own 25-year career inArmy intelligence to lend realism to the stories he writes
Description
<p>What if you treated others the way you'd like to be treated? What if everyone did that? What kind of world could there be? Robert and Kait decide to look for the golden ruler that their Mom has told them about, only to find out that she meant RULE instead of ruler. What is this "Golden Rule" and what does it mean? Join in the children's quest to discover how to follow the Golden Rule and share it with others, as you meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books. This is the eighth rhyming children's book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon, whose other bestselling books include Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift. Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won thirty-six awards for her previous rhyming books and is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called "an absolute master of rhyming" by Mother Daughter Book Reviews and "a modern day Dr. Seuss" by GMTA Review. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Now retired, she travels the country with her husband in an RV, going from coast to coast to visit their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/sherrillscannon</p>
Story Behind The Book
Based on the true incident of the burning alive of 21- year-old Fred
Alexander in 1901 for suspected murder and accosting a white female
Broadway resident, Eva Roth, at 6:30 PM on 12 January 1901. The
principal of Leavenworth High, Dr Evans, witnessed and overblew the
accosting. Alexander then came under suspicion for the murder of
Pearl Forbes on election night, 2 Nov 1900. Sheriff Abernathy moved
him from city jail to county jail to State Pen back to county jail. During
this last transfer, a lynch mob of 12,000 people took him to the edge of
town, chained him to a stake, tore down a wooden shed for its wood,
stacked the wood around him and threw coal oil on it. After burning
him alive, all 12,000 filed by his body. Fred was buried in Mt. Muncie
Cemetary. Later on, a man killed a woman in Colorado with similar
MO to the Pearl Forbes murder. The Lynch mob may have burned an
innocent man.
