Willow's Walkabout

A Children’s Guide to Boston

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DESCRIPTION

Imagine that you are Willow the Wallaby, who has come from Australia to live in the Stone Zoo New England, and all day long you overhear young visitors talking about all the great sights to see in the Boston area. After making a list, wouldn’t you want to hop over your fence and set off on a walkabout (that’s what Australians call a walking tour)?

Packing her notebook, pen and anything else she might need conveniently in her pouch, one foggy night, Willow hops over the fence and begins her mission to see as many of the interesting and fun places in the city as she can over the next several days. Setting up a little tent in the Boston Garden, she begins her adventure the next day on the famous Swan Boats, right away meeting a nice little boy who tells where to go next. Taking lots of notes, Willow goes from one fun-filled location to another even ending up hopping her way through the Boston Marathon, all the time collecting souvenirs to bring back to her many friends at the zoo.

There is so much to see around beautiful Boston, it is difficult to decide where to go first; so let Willow be your guide in this delightful book written in bouncy wallaby verse with wonderfully detailed illustrations.

ENDORSEMENTS

Willow’s Walkaboutis a charming, fanciful story that is a wonderful introduction to the Boston area for children. As someone who worked with Aardu, the curious wallaby who inspired this book, I know firsthand how incredible the journey was. Children are sure to embrace this book detailing Willow’s adventures, and I hope it encourages everyone to visit all the fabulous animals at Stone Zoo and  Franklin Park Zoo.
 - John Linehan, curator of mammals at the time of Aardu’s adventure, and currently president and CEO of Zoo New England (Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo)

 A sweet, warm, fun romp to all the Boston attractions; Willow the Wallaby, always making room for her tail, is the best and most loveable tour guide you could hope for!
 - Margery Eagan,  columnist, Boston Herald and morning host, 96.9FM Boston Talks

“Make Way for Ducklings” will have to make way for Willow. I was never much for kids’ stories when I was a kid or when I had two of my own. But I love this book, a true Boston TOUR de force.
 – Jim Braude, 96.9FM and New England Cable News

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-13:   978-1-59373-096-3
Language: English
Dimensions: 10″ x 7″

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sheila S. Cunningham

Sheila S. Cunningham, based her story ‘Willow’s Walkabout’ on the real life story of “Aardu,” a most inquisitive and ingenious wallaby who, many years ago, went missing from Stone Zoo New England in Stoneham, Massachusetts. This brave wallaby hopped unnoticed from the cozy comforts of a zoo home in order to experience a new adventure. Aardu’s escape and voluntary return to the zoo made headline news not only in Boston, Massachusetts, but all across the United States.

 A proud native of Scranton, PA, Sheila experienced love at first sight when she arrived in Boston, MA to attend graduate school.  A lawyer and now author, she is a devoted fan of all things Boston, and resides in Norton, MA with her husband and their wonder pooch, Dempsey.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Kathie Kelleher

Kathie Kelleher is a graduate of Paier College of Art and has illustrated many children’s books. She is proud to be descended from a long line of Cape Breton storytellers. Kathie lives on Boston’s historic North Shore in Merrimac MA, with her husband.

Helping Santa

It is finally out and will be in stores in late October.

Last October I was invited to a holiday gathering of a local PEO Chapter in Shelburne,VT. At that time Susan Kapsalis, now the chapter president, read this wonderful story. As she was reading, I was envisioning illustrations done by Bert Dodson, who we had done another children’s Christmas book with in 2009, Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story.

Helping Santa

After the presentations I asked Susan where she had found this story, for if it was a book that existed I wanted to get it for all my grandchildren. She told me that it was a story circulating on the internet and that the author was unknown. After some research I did locate the story on various websites, all the time getting more excited. I then did a copyright search at the Library of Congress and could not find one, it was meant to be and I could publish this book. I would title it Helping Santa: My First Christmas Adventure with Grandma.

One Warm Coat

Before I got into publishing, and had more time on my hands, I was able to volunteer at a daytimes women’s shelter in Boston, MA, The Womens Lunch Place. I really had been missing that good feeling one gets when one reaches out, giving and caring about those less fortunate. The basic message of this book was just that, a little boy buys a coat for a classmate who needs one in order to be able to play outside at recess. I wanted to find a charitable organization with that premise. More research, I do love the internet, brought me to Sherri Lewis Wood and her foundation One Warm Coat . I initially left a phone message hoping it would be picked up. Not too worry, she got back to me 5 minutes later, the first of many conversations. A new friendship was made and partnership formed to get the message out so that no one should go without a warm coat this winter. A portion of the royalties generated by the sale of this book will be going to One Warm Coat. Sherri’s conviction for what she is doing and her immediate understanding of how this book can be used as a vehicle to further her cause was exciting.

It made me very happy when Bert Dodson agreed to do the illustrations, I think partly because he enjoyed my enthusiasm for the project, for he has a demanding schedule. His watercolors bring the story and all its endearing characters to life. Bert works with live models and actual locations to achieve the level of realism his illustrations portray. He used an existing store, Hill’s 5 & 10, in Bradford, VT where his studio is so I thought as a small show of gratitude we would change the stores name from that which was in the original story. Other than that the text pretty much remains as I first heard it, a powerful little story with a big message.

I can’t wait until November when I can bring out this beautiful book and read to my 8 little granddaughters!

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This is the story of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) the first African American painter to achieve fame in both Europe and America. An inspiration for the Harlem Renaissance artists and later generations of American painters, his story is retold by Faith Ringgold, one of today’s leading African American artists, to inspire another generation of children to become the artists of the future.

Faith Ringgold’s depiction of Tanner’s struggle to achieve his dream and his success as a painter on the world stage will inspire and challenge young readers to look at the artist’s work and maybe go out and buy a few brushes and dry pigments (like Tanner did as a young boy in Philadelphia just 3 years after the Civil War) and set out to achieve their own dreams.

The book is published to coincide with a major exhibition of Tanner’s work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 32 pages, 20 color photos and 30 color illustrations
ISBN-13: 978-1-59373-092-5
Language: English

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Faith Ringgold, artist and author lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Ringgold’s art has been exhibited worldwide. She has written and illustrated fourteen children’s books including, Tar Beach which has won more than 30 awards including a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award.

We are delighted to now offer Favor Johnson’s Fruitcake. The Favor Johnson Fruitcake is a sweet spicy holiday treat, a great gift for your neighbors or yourself. Purchase Favor Johnson written by Willem Lange and a fruitcake for a family close to you. Favor Johnson Fruitcake is all natural. Made by Old Cavendish, absolutely packed full of real fruits and nuts, slow baked, drenched with liqueurs, then cooled to perfection. Wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.

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Bunker Hill Publishing has joined with Old Canvendish to make the Favor Johnson Fruitcake. Taking the ingrediants that Willem Lange mentions in his book, Favor Johnson. We have created the Favor Johnson Fruitcake, an all natural sweet and spicy holiday treat. The fruitcake is available for purchase on our website and in many stores in New England.

Old Cavendish Products comes to you from the heart of Vermont. We’ve been a family run business since 1986 and are committed to providing only the finest in Vermont Specialty Foods.

Using time-tested recipes and wholesome, preservative free ingredients, we are proud to offer you our Old Cavendish Fruitcake, three garden fresh Herb Vinegars and our famous Vermont Volcano Mustard.e invite you to share the tradition of Old Cavendish quality with family and friends by purchasing a Favor Johnson Fruitcake today.

We invite you to share the tradition of Old Cavendish quality with family and friends by purchasing a Favor Johnson Fruitcake today.

Favor Johnson by Williem Lange

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DESCRIPTION

With all the elements of a classic American winter folktale, Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story has been a favorite Vermont Public Radio story for twenty-five years and is now a bright and lively picture book. Favor Johnson is a compelling curmudgeon, a loner who lives on a farm with his livestock and faithful dog. One cold night near Christmas, Favor finds his outlook on life forever changed by the kindness of a neighbor and is coaxed out of his shell. Writes Publishers Weekly: “[Willem] Lange relates this ultimately uplifting tale with all the sturdy simplicity of a wintry Vermont landscape, while [Bert] Dodson’s judicious use of color in his spare watercolors and a tight focus on the action heighten the drama.”

REVIEWS

via The Reading Tub (c) – “This is a very special story. The illustrations are beautifully done, and the color selection adds to the moods of the story as it shifts from page to page. The first time through it seemed a little disjointed, but with additional readings it smoothed itself out.”

via ForeWordReviews.com (c) 2009 – “Favor finds himself in the position of, while not exactly asking for help, at least accepting it. It changes his life—it changes everyones’ lives. Dodson’s delicate and explicit illustrations are the perfect foil to this unsentimental but completely heartwarming tale. Children of all ages will enjoy the story, and adult readers will laugh out loud at the expressive joke on fruitcake. For all ages.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2009 – “Being a Vermonter, I have had the pleasure of listening to Willem Lange read this story every year on our local NPR station. This story never grows old with me or my family. I am so excited to see this as a children’s book. The story of Favor and his dog, Hercules will touch the heart of everyone who reads it.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2009 – “”Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story” is a twice-told, classic American Christmas folktale about a Vermont farmer named Favor Johnson and his faithful hound, Hercules. When Hercules is found badly injured by rabbit hunters’ shots, Favor carries him home through the snow . He is met by Dr. Jennings, a neighbor who had bought land from Favor to build a retirement home on. The story of what follows is heartwarming and authentic and has the ring of undeniable truth. “Favor Johnson” has been enjoyed as a Vermont Public radio reading treat for over 25 years. Now the story has been brought to life in this excellent children’s book with beautiful spare water color illustrations. All ages will enjoy “Favor Johnson” and recover some Christmas spirit in the reading.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2009 – “This is a wonderful story to share with your family during the holidays and throughout the year. Favor Johnson is a story of people helping others, and giving to others, just for the sake of it. This book is so well done because it captures the simplicity of that message, and the illustrations are beautiful. I have three young daughters who have already asked me to read it to them over and over. I am always happy to be reading books like this to my children. Favor Johnson will remain a family favorite for years to come! Enjoy.”

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730829
ISBN-13: 978-1593730826
Language: English
Dimensions: 8 x 10.2 x 0.4 inches
Weight: 14.4 ounces

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Bert Dodson

Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated over 80 books for children . He is the author of Keys To Drawing ( North Light Books, 1985), Keys to Drawing with Imagination, (2006) and NUKE A Book of Cartoons, vols. I and II.( McFarland and Co., 1986 and 1988). He co-authored, with noted biologist, Mahlon Hoagland, The Way Life Works ( Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; The Story of Unseen Life on Earth (ASM Press, 1999, Needam, et all). He was animation designer for the four part PBS television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He illustrated over 30 opera stories for children, a series commissioned by The New York Metropolitan Opera.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Willem Lange

Willem Lange was born in 1935. A child of deaf parents, he grew up speaking sign language and first came to New England to prep school in 1950 as an alternative to reform school in his native New York State. During a few absences from New England, Will earned a degree in only nine years at the College of Wooster in Ohio. In between those scattered semesters, he worked as a ranch hand, Adirondack guide, preacher, construction laborer, bobsled run announcer, assembly line worker, cab driver, bookkeeper, and bartender. After graduating in 1962, he taught high school English in northern New York, filling in summers as an Outward Bound instructor.

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• Author: Willem Lange
• Tour: Willem Lange’s 2010 Book Signing Tour
• Date: Saturday, November 20th 2010
• Time: 11:00am
• City: Willem Lange in Bradford, VT 05033
• Venue: Booked Solid
• Address: 157 Main Street
• Venue phone: 802-222-5826
• Country: United States
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: Willem Lange will do a reading from his book ‘Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story and be available to sign copies along with Bert Dodson, the illustrator.
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• Author: Willem Lange
• Tour: Willem Lange’s 2010 Book Signing Tour
• Date: Saturday, November 20th 2010
• Time: 2:00pm
• City: Willem Lange in Fairlee, VT 05045
• Venue: Chapman’s Store
• Address: 491 Main Street
• Venue phone: 802-333-9709
• Country: United States
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: Willem Lange will do a reading from his book ‘Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story and be available to sign copies along with Bert Dodson, the illustrator.
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• Author: Willem Lange
• Tour: Willem Lange’s 2010 Book Signing Tour
• Date: Sunday, November 21st 2010
• Time: 2:00pm
• City: Willem Lange in Bellows Falls, VT 05101
• Venue: Village Square Bookseller
• Address: 32 The Square
• Country: United States
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: Willem Lange will do a reading from his book ‘Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story and be available to sign copies.
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Cousin John by Walter Paine

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DESCRIPTION

Walter Paine’s Cousin John: the Story of a Boy and a Small Smart Pigtakes young readers to a time when dogs roamed unleashed and ice was delivered in blocks by beefy men with iron tongs. Bert Dodson’s charming illustrations bring the bygone era to life and highlight key points in the story. A simple, elegant tale set in Brookline, Massachusetts a generation or two ago, Cousin John is about awakening and discovery, animals and humans, as experienced by a lonely, curious boy and his pet pig who become the talk of the town. A true story, Cousin John, exemplifies that magic moment in childhood Graham Greene noted, “when the door opens and lets the future in”.

REVIEW

via The Reading Tub (c) – “This is, first and foremost, the story of a young boy’s strained and painful relationship with his father. I wish there were more authors like this one.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2007 – “But as he tells his story it seems that his father too, is having difficulty trying to figure out how to approach his own son — be a father. In an early section of the book, Mr. Paine suggests that his father’s father, too, was a remote and stern presence. At least his dad tries, and one of the most successful tries was when he showed up one day with a small pig in his arms. Boy and pig take to each other immediately and soon young Walter has a friend to accompany him in his rambles through the woods and neighborhood.We get to go along on some of these rambles, thanks not only to Mr. Paine’s very accessible prose but to some truly wonderful illustrations by Bert Dodson. The illustrations, book design — even the font and paper selection make this just the sort of book one would like to have in ones personal library. It is also touching to note how Walter’s dad becomes increasingly involved with his son’s life after the arrival of Cousin John.”

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 96 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730578
ISBN-13: 978-1593730574
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
Weight: 12 ounces

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Bert Dodson

Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated over 80 books for children . He is the author of Keys To Drawing ( North Light Books, 1985), Keys to Drawing with Imagination, (2006) and NUKE A Book of Cartoons, vols. I and II.( McFarland and Co., 1986 and 1988). He co-authored, with noted biologist, Mahlon Hoagland, The Way Life Works ( Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; The Story of Unseen Life on Earth (ASM Press, 1999, Needam, et all). He was animation designer for the four part PBS television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He illustrated over 30 opera stories for children, a series commissioned by The New York Metropolitan Opera.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Walter Paine is a career journalist. He spent 24 years as editor-in-chief and publisher of the Valley News, a regional daily based in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. He founded the innovative Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont. He and his wife now live on an 1803 farmstead in Enfield, New Hampshire.

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Bones, Brains and DNA

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DESCRIPTION

Based on the new Spitzer Hall of Human Origins in the American Museum of Natural History, which opened in February 2007, this book about the genome takes the young reader to the cutting edge of science, exploring and examining the tools by which we study our origins, some of the milestones in those origins, human movement across the planet and the beginnings of being human – through language, music, art and tools.

REVIEWS

via The Reading Tub (c) – “This book is a jewel; the title doesn’t give the book its justice. The authors know how to keep their readers engaged and interested in the topic. The graphics and illustrations complement the text and grab the reader’s attention. This book is a jewel.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2007 – “This was a very good book for my seven year old who is interested in DNA and evolution.”

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover:  40 pages
ISBN-10: 159373056X
ISBN-13: 978-1593730567
Language: English
Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
Weight: 1 pounds

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Patricia Wynne

Patricia J. Wynne is an award winning artist who lives with her husband, artist Donald Silver, in New York City. She works at the American Museum of Natural History and teaches numerous courses when she is not illustrating books. Patricia illustrated Summer of Cecily by Nan Lincoln for Bunker Hill Publishing. She has a studio in New York City. Her books are frequently on Book of the Year Lists in Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Parade, New York Times Book Review and others. You can find many examples of her work on her website http://www.patriciawynne.com.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ian Tattersall

Ian Tattersall is currently Curator in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.  Born in England and raised in East Africa, he has carried out both primatological and paleontological fieldwork in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Vietnam, Surinam, Yemen and Mauritius.  Trained in archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, and in geology and vertebrate paleontology at Yale, Tattersall has concentrated his research since the 1960s in three main areas: the analysis of the human fossil record and its integration with evolutionary theory, the origin of human cognition, and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar.

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Rob DeSalle is a molecular biologist in the Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in New York in Alphabet City.

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Ian Tattersall

Ian Tattersall is currently Curator in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.  Born in England and raised in East Africa, he has carried out both primatological and paleontological fieldwork in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Vietnam, Surinam, Yemen and Mauritius.  Trained in archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, and in geology and vertebrate paleontology at Yale, Tattersall has concentrated his research since the 1960s in three main areas: the analysis of the human fossil record and its integration with evolutionary theory, the origin of human cognition, and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar.  Tattersall is also a prominent interpreter of human paleontology to the public, with several trade books to his credit, among them Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (with Rob DeSalle, 2007), The Monkey in the Mirror (2002), Extinct Humans (with Jeffrey Schwartz, 2000), Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness (1998), The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives (1995; rev. 1999) and The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution (1995; 2nd. ed. 2009) as well as several articles in Scientific American and the co-editorship of the definitive Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory.  He lectures widely at venues around the world, and, as curator, has also been responsible for several major exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, including Ancestors: Four Million Years of Humanity (1984); Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life In Ice Age Europe (1986); Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors  (1989); The First Europeans: Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca (2003); the highly acclaimed Hall of Human Biology and Evolution (1993), and most recently the successor Hall of Human Origins (2007).

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Bones, Brains and DNA

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Based on the new Spitzer Hall of Human Origins in the American Museum of Natural History, which opened in February 2007, this book about the genome takes the young reader to the cutting edge of science, exploring and examining the tools by which we study our origins, some of the milestones in those origins, human movement across the planet and the beginnings of being human – through language, music, art and tools. Read More…

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