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March 22, 2006BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Meet George Washington Beaver And Friends
Blogs are all about the individual. They are at their best when the personality or pet interests of the authors are on display.
My pet interest at Beltway Blogroll happens to be blogs themselves, and I don't often veer from that topic. But I am going to break with that theme today to tell you about the children's book I wrote under the pen name Mister Critter.
I wrote the book, "George Washington Beaver and the Cherry Tree," several years ago, after a trio of beavers toppled some of the prized cherry trees near Washington's Tidal Basin. The book combines the factual with the fictional and the historical with the mythical to convey an important message about truth-telling. It's also designed to encourage children to learn some of the great stories from American history.
The book is chock-full of intriguing characters and Beltway-like references that Washingtonian parents will appreciate, too. There is George Washington Beaver; Teddy Roosevelt Beaver, who talks softly but carries a big stick; J. Edgar Beaver, the notorious head of the FBBI; the evil weasels who impose a pondweed tax on the beavers; Dam Vernon and Capitol Dam; and the Select Committee on Beaver Intelligence.
Just this week -- in time for the National Cherry Blossom Festival that begins in a few days -- I re-launched my Web site, MisterCritter.com, to promote electronic versions of both the book and a companion coloring book. The site also has sample coloring pages for children to print and color as often as they want, and you can see a couple of thumbnails of images colored by my two older children, Anthony and Elli.
I hope you'll check out the site and let me know what you think. And thanks for bearing with me through this shameless plug.
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I just received a Google Alert about an Human Events Online article about George Washington Beaver and the Cherry Tree.
Hey, great work!
If Human Events says good about you, you gotta be good. Folks judge you by the companay you keep. And many years ago, Tom Winter signed a very nice letter for me for the "Newt" Congress. (Have you noticed how ever since there are everywhere on the air the Gecko of GEICO?)
Back on George Washington's Birthday, I was in the Library of Virginia for the Home Educators Association of Virginia where I shared my in-person rendition of the GW Cherry Tree story, that I have on a few minute email video.
Later in the day, "GW" received a "standing ovation" in both the Senate and the House of Delegates.
A photo of "GW" on line is at:
http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2001/38/
Anyway, I would like to work with you to have "GW" do a reading of your book to some toddlers in one of his GrandPaPa George Revolutionary Reader Read-Alongs (Oh, by the way, PaPa stands for Pater Patrae, father of His country...)
Please use Ben's mixing of electricity and mail to write to me or use one of those other clever devices that projects your voice across the miles.
GW Lives!
aka James Renwick Manship, Sr.
George Washington LIVES! | 03.23.06 06:47 PM
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