About
I was born in 1950 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1972 from Mansfield University with a BS in English, I've worked in factories, taught high school English, and run a successful house painting business. I'm also a freelance writer, and my short stories, poetry, and articles have appeared in over 490 magazines in the U.S., England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Romania, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia. I've published eleven poetry collections, two audio books of horror verse, three volumes of short stories, seven Civil War novels and two French and Indian War novels. In my spare time I enjoy photography, trout fishing, deer hunting, and Civil War reenacting. I belong to the Company I Bucktail unit of of McKean County in Pennsylvania.
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 ENCHANTED LAND grew out of the "Evil Love" story that appeared in my horror collection TERROR TIME (Infinity Publishing, 2009). So many readers loved the tale that I figured I'd expand it into a novel. Canadian editor and author, G. W. Thomas was especially supportive. I enlisted author Fiona Ingram to help me write THIS ENCHANTED LAND and artist David Cox to illustrate it. Their help was invaluable!
Reviews
When I read THIS ENCHANTED LAND I was nose-to-nose with the same problem I've had with earlier Bill Robertson books, and I've read more than a dozen of them. Like his other writings, the action is well-crafted, intensely vivid, and fast paced. This story propelled me through the pages at breakneck speed, from one adventure to the next, leaving me with my tongue hanging out like a happy beagle after a rabbit chase. As I read, I did not come to like Dane Wulfdin, the hero of this time travel to Viking days, but I <em>became</em> Dane Wulfdin. The chronic problem? This tale, like Robertson's others, is too soon over, and the wait for his next book will be excruciating.<br /><br />Dan Day, Marketing Executive<br />Boonsboro, MD<br /><br /><br />David Cox's wonderful illustrations bring the magical words of this book to life as you stare into them and imagine being one of the characters described. Filled with love, despair, destruction, betrayal, and truth, this is a creative, magical work of literature to enjoy.<br /><br />Dane ventures through a land filled with such enchanted beings as ogres, witches, dragons, and magic. . .Can he survive the test of will through his journey, or will he forever be damned to this enchanted land?<br /><br />Michelle Lichtenfels<br />ReviewTheBook.com 12/16/2010
