Jim Musgrave

Jim Musgrave

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James Musgrave(a.k.a. Efraim Zimbalist Graves) is an author and college educatorin San Diego, California. His recent non-fiction title, The DigitalScribe: a Writer's Guide to Electronic Media (AP Professional, ISBN0-12-512255-1) has been internationally published. He has a M.A.degree in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. He wasawarded the Ebook of the Year Award,2001-2002 from Bookbooters for his thriller, RussianWolves. In addition, Mr. Musgrave has finished as a Finalist in theNew Century Writer Awards for his novel excerpt, Iron Maiden, andRunner-Up in the $10,000 Annual Heekin Foundation Awards for NewFiction Writers (1994). He has published short fiction in manyliterary journals, including: San Diego Writer's Monthly, ShroudAnthology Beneath the Surface, Stone Magazine, FirstDraft, SniplitsAudio Short Stories 2 Go, Back Channels, Pacific Review, CaliforniaQuarterly and Cowles Mountain Journal. He has also been publishedat CIC Publishers with four novels: Sins of Darkness, RussianWolves, Iron Maiden and Lucifer's Wedding and acollection of short fiction, The President'sParasite and Other Stories. Mr. Musgrave'sstory, "Speculum" was an HonorableMention in the Fog City Writer's Awards, and"Turning the Law Wheel" was anHonorable Mention in the Cedar Hill Press Short FictionContest.  His literary fiction appears in Best New Writing 2011, published by Hopewell Press, Titusville, N. J.

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>

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