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UNCLE JAMES

Marc Harshman was recently named the poet laureate of West Virginia.

This book draws part of its plot from Harshman’s recollected family tales and documents he inherited from his grandmother, especially her father's postcards from his years in the logging camps of the American Northwest early this century. Although he did not set out to tell a tale about alcoholism, it does address this illness with caution and hope.

From Marc Harshman’s website:

Until ten years ago Marc Harshman taught fifth and sixth grades at the Sand Hill School, one of the last of the three-room country schools.

Raised in Indiana, he has lived his adult life in West Virginia with his wife, Cheryl Ryan (author, artist, & librarian), and his twentry-year-old daughter, Sarah. The author of eleven picture books for children, he is also a poet and storyteller. His children's books have been published in Spanish, Korean, Danish, and Swedish. ONLY ONE was a Reading Rainbow review title on PBS TV and THE STORM was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Smithsonian Notable Book for Children, a Children's Book Council Notable Book for Social Studies, and a 1995 Parent's Choice Award recipient. "Booklist" has called this same title "a knowing book that will speak to all children about self-image and hard-won success." Mr. Harshman was honored in 1994 by receiving the Ezra Jack Keats / Kerlan Collection Fellowship from the University of Minnesota for research on Scandinavian myth and folklore. He was also named the West Virginia state English teacher of the year by the West Virginia English Language Arts Council in 1995. More recently he was named the recipient of the WV Arts Commission Fellowship in Poetry for the year 2000 and the Fellowship in Children’s Literature for 2008. He holds degrees from Bethany College, Yale University Divinity School, and the University of Pittsburgh.

From Michael Dooling’s website:

Michael Dooling is the illustrator of over fifty books-many on historic subjects. He has illustrated picture books, chapter books and many Middle Grade Novels. His clients over the past twenty years include Reader's Digest, The United States Post Office, Scholastic, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, HarperCollins, Philomel, Puffin Books, McElderry Books, Henry Holt, Holiday House, Beechtree, Atheneum, Disney and many others. Michael graduated in 1988 with a Master's Degree in Illustration from Syracuse University and is a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York.

In 1974 Craig began teaching at Art Center College of Design and for the past 13 years has been sharing his knowledge at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco where he is Director of Fine Art, Drawing and Painting.

From the dust jacket description:

Uncle James promised he would soon send gifts from the logging camps out west. He promised he would send money. Then he promised he would bring it himself. And Jimmy’s family need all the money and high hopes they could get that winter after Fathe died. But all that came were stories and more promises.

When Uncle James finally arrived, it was different than the family ever imagined. Instead of gifts and money, Uncle James brought his own problems.

What Jimmy learns from Uncle Hames; arrival is that adults aren’t always heroes, and that sometimes they need help in becoming one.

11 x 8 1/2 inches--32 pages

CONDITION:
This hard-cover book and its dustjacket is in fine, like new condition. No wear, names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. There is a small felt pen mark--a remainder mark--on the bottom page edges.

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