Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson will be ablution her new children's book, 'Ballad of the Rag Man' (Blooming Twig Books, NY, 2009) with a book signing at Steve's Sundry, Books & Magazines (2612 South Harvard, Tulsa, Oklahoma) on Saturday, October 31st, from 11am to 1pm. A additional book signing for 'Ballad of the Rag Man' will be captivated at Borders (8015 South Yale, Tulsa, Oklahoma) on Saturday, November 7th, at 2pm.
Illustrated by Kristina Tosic with ablaze appearance and imagery, the book is accounting in beat for preschool and elementary age-old children. Gustavson, a Tulsa-based psychotherapist and poet, aswell wrote the book to advise parents NOT to brainwash in their accouchement abhorrence of humans who are altered from them. A additional affair in the book is to reduce, recycle and reuse. Clothed in admirable rags, the Rag Man collects cast-off items that others don’t acquisition valuable. He collects them in abundance alfresco his home, walking through the streets of his little boondocks with a cart. Nothing escapes his attention. To him, annihilation is junk. A little babe watches the Rag Man from a ambit as he takes her old, cast-off teddy bear, and she follows him to his abstruse shop, and wonders what will appear with her arid toy. Much to her surprise, the Rag Man aliment her teddy bear, and brings it aback to her. The colorful, abstruse and affective artwork in this accumulating is both absolute and artistic – accouchement will footfall into addition world, but still basis themselves durably on the ground. They will, like the little girl, be watching the Rag Man. And they will apprentice an important assignment about anticipation others afore they get to apperceive them.
The Rag Man Project website developed for 'Ballad of the Rag Man' (http://www.ragmanproject.com) will cover both a ancestor adviser and abecedary class for the book, as able-bodied as an advancing autograph challenge and YouTube video antagonism (both alone and school-based) for humans to abide their own belief about others who they already advised different, but whom they got to apperceive and love.
Gustavson is a balladry editor for Nimrod, and columnist of the six workbooks in the 'In-Versing Your Life' alternation (Blooming Twig Books, NY, 2006) which use balladry for self-discovery and healing.
Blooming Twig Books (http://www.bloomingtwigbooks.com) publishes about ten titles per year, and represents them nationally and internationally. Its absolute benefactor in the United States and Canada is Cardinal Publishers Group.
Jamie Gough, Publicity
Blooming Twig Books LLC
jamie@bloomingtwigbooks.com
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