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Tag Archives: Lucky Boy
Illustration gallery
I work in pencil, ink, colored pencil, watercolor and gouache.
Tagged A Dog Named Bear, Best Friends, Blond Twin, chihuahua, goat, Hand-me-down Hannah, Happy New Year Baby, Humpty Dumpty, illustrations, LThe Dog Walker, Lucky Boy, Made for Each Other, Mama Shrew, Mouse, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Piggies Sketch, Rub-a-dub-dub, shrew, Sleep Tight, Socks, Take the Long Way Home, Tender Regard, There Was an Old Woman, Three Kids, Three Little Robbers
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Ode to Frida
My little muse… studio goddess… resident clown… She dogged me, especially in the last year – having lost sight in one eye due to a detached retina and her hearing gone, she’d awaken with a start and not see me sitting … Continue reading
Posted in Musings
Tagged definition of a "a good day", euthanasia, Frida, Lucky Boy, Mt. Tabor Park, muse, studio goddess, to love a dog
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United Animal Nations interview…
Alexa Mergen interviewed me awhile back about my book Lucky Boy, here in Portland, in my own backyard. United Animal Nations uses Lucky Boy as one of 12 books in their Humane Education Ambassador Reading (HEAR) program. Alexa has moved on … Continue reading
Posted in Musings
Tagged Alexa Mergen, HEAR program, Lucky Boy, UAN, United Animal Nations
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Reviews
LUCKY BOY Publishers Weekly 01/28/2002 (a starred review) This splendidly told dog story finds a pair of neighbors one two-legged, the other four-legged mired in loneliness until chance brings them together. Confined by a high wooden fence to a barren … Continue reading
Books
My picture book, Lucky Boy (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), started as the story of an unlucky little dog and a lonely widower. The dog was based on a lonely dog in my neighborhood and the man, based on my father, who was grieving … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Rider, Books for Young Readers, chapter book, Christine Graham, Henry Holt and Company, Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Company, illustration, KIND, KIND Children's Book Award, Lucky Boy, Peter Peter Picks a Pumpkin House, Reka Simonsen, Three Little Robbers, unlucky dog
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