The Books written by Barbara Gowan

   
ISBN 1-58536-068-6   40 pgs   Hardcover   $17.95            ISBN 1-58536-162-3  40 pgs   Hardcover   $17.95

Published by Sleeping Bear Press and sold at local bookstores and on amazon.com.
Teacher's guides can be downloaded at http://www.sleepingbearpress.com/educators/.

   These informational books are written for all ages.
The colorful illustrations and rhymes are enjoyed by the
younger listener while the text in the sidebar is suited
for the older reader.  On the Accelerated Reader scale,
G is for Grand Canyon is 6.7 and Desert Digits is 6.5.

Celebrated as a Southwest Children's Book of the Year
in 2002, G is for Grand Canyon is part of the Discover
America State by State series.

Desert Digits was nominated for the Grand Canyon
Reader Award in the nonfiction category in 2007.


   
Irving Toddy is a Navajo Indian artist                            Aimee Jackson edited Desert Digits.
and illustrated Desert Digits
.

     L is for Leprechaun - an ABC book of Notre Dame was published by my company, Learning With Little Folks, in 2008.  I was responsible for all aspects of the book from research and writing to hiring an illustrator to printing and marketing. It is an officially licensed product of the University.  We topped the 1000 book mark in August.  A donation is made to the Hesburgh
Library for each book sold.
ISBN 978-0-9815500-0-8  40 pgs  Hardcover  $24.95 

Available at the Hammes Bookstore on campus and its online catalog http://www.ndcatalog.com

   
Research for L is for Leprechaun included a look in my college scrapbooks and a visit to the Archives on campus.  My rector from freshman year, Jane Pitz, shared her artistic talent and created the art for the
book.  She digitized photographs.  Look for my daughters, Meghan and Kaitlin, on pages A, G and W.

 
 
 

I am especially proud of the words that former
University president Fr. Hesburgh shared on the
back cover.


And of course,
H is for Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC
a scholar, leader, and priest,
president emeritus, and activist
for civil rights and world peace. 


 


 

 I will be on campus signing books
at the Hammes Bookstore on Friday
and Saturday of the Notre Dame -
Navy weekend, November 6 & 7, 2009.

Jane Pitz will be signing on Friday,
October 2 during the Washington game.

Otherwise, look for me cheering on the
Fighting Irish football team at the Notre
Dame Club of Phoenix watch parties.
Go Irish!


To learn more about forthcoming books, check out the post - Future Writing Projects.

 

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