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Dwain Tucker

Dwain Tucker

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Dwain S. Tucker lives and works in Los Angeles. He resides in Redondo Beach, enjoying the beach city atmosphere and the southern California lifestyle. He works as a licensed professional civil engineer designing wastewater treatment plants for a large municipality in Los Angeles County. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering, both degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Last, he also works as an actor in television and film projects, is represented by a talent agency, and is a union member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He is an avid international traveler, having visited all six continents and forty countries to date. He is single with no children.

My Fingerpaint Masterpiece Coloring Book

My Fingerpaint Masterpiece Coloring Book

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<p>Have you ever seen a &quot;work of art&quot; worth millions, which looks like something your child just brought home from school?</p><p>The dual perspective of &quot;Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder&quot; and just a little bit of &quot;The Emperor's New Clothes&quot; 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 &quot;judges&quot; 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 &quot;masterpiece&quot; 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 &amp; Spiders &amp; 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 &quot;a modern day Dr. Seuss.&quot; - GTMA Review</p>

Story Behind The Book

The first chapter details the reasons for the book. I was irritated that this ugly family rumor of the mysterious death of my grandmother being an actual murder perpetrated by my grandfather. This rumor had plagued my family for over 30 years. I decided I would put the rumor to rest by investigating it, and found shocking secrets revealed along the way.

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<h5 style="margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">BOOK INDUSTRY REVIEWS</span></span></h5> <p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Over My Dead Body (overmydeadbody.com) book review website:</span></span></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Reviewed by Cherie Jung</span></span></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">&quot;For nearly four decades, a rumor had dogged the author's family. Did his grandfather have something to do with his grandmother's death? Was she, in fact, murdered? Or did she die in the way he had been told? <strong>PEEPEYES</strong> chronicles Mr. Tucker's search for answers. </span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">The unraveling of the mystery surrounding Nell Tucker's death makes for fascinating reading. It's not just a story about one family and what happened a long time ago. It's about a time and place in our history as a nation. Kudos to Mr. Tucker for beginning his quest to know the truth, or as much of it as he could uncover, regarding his grandmother's death and for continuing the quest even when he wasn't sure he would find the answers he was looking for or like the answers he found. </span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Reading <strong>PEEPEYES</strong> brought back memories of my own family's tainted history. We know that one of my distant uncles was hanged as a horse thief and that my great-great or maybe great-great-great grandmother once hid Jesse James under the floor boards of her kitchen when the sheriff came a callin'. (But we don't know if she hid him <em>willingly</em>.) </span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">I think most readers will find <strong>PEEPEYES</strong> mesmerizing and inspiring tale. It is a journey of discovery. </span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">In the author's own words, he describes the reason for this book. &quot;I wanted to describe an individual (myself) experiencing the discovery of how an extraordinary, bizarre mystery happened in a rather normal, Midwest family.&quot; </span></p> <p style="margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></p><p></p> <h5 style="margin:0in 1.8pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">READER REVIEWS</span></span></h5> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Anne Carayon:</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">&quot;Great entertaining narrative! The mystery thickens as you go along! The historical and sociological backgrounds have transformed a personal sad story into a page of American Middle West History. It is also a description of what man can do to achieve his egotistical goals. That's universal and timeless.&quot;</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Deborah Schadt:</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">&quot;How brave it was of Dwain Tucker to put so much thought, time, and energy into looking for something he didn’t want to find! His intention to uncover evidence to disprove a family murder rumor led him to the discovery of numerous family secrets, both good &amp; bad.</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></p><p></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Many in Dwain Tucker’s family learned everything they knew from the school of hard knocks &amp; he was so honest in his portrayal of the “colorful” characters in his family. His attempt at imitating the dialect used by the people of that place &amp; time is both humorous &amp; accurate.&quot; </span></p>