Will Rogers
By Frank Keating, illustrations by Mike Wimmer
Will Rogers heeded the call of adventure from the time he was very young. As a boy, he learned to ride and rope as well as anyone, and he dreamed of touching distant skies. As a man, he traveled the four corners of the globe with a grin on his face and a smile in his heart, and he never met a man he didn’t like.
In Will Rogers, Frank Keating and Mike Wimmer sensitively capture Will Rogers’ humanity, voice, and spirit. A larger-than-life figure of the twentieth century, Will Rogers lived by his own rules of modesty, plain living, friendship, and family. His life was the American dream.
Theodore
by Frank Keating,
paintings by Mike Wimmer
His name was Theodore, but he is remembered as
Teddy. As a young boy, he was a dreamer and a reader and had a curiosity about
life he could never satisfy. As the youngest man ever to be president, he led a
nation to greatness and he made every day count.
Frank Keating's telling of incidents in
Roosevelt's rich and varied life reminds readers how one person can make a
difference. Mike Wimmer's exuberant paintings make Roosevelt come to life a
century after his presidency.
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Stealing Home
Few
baseball players have inspired more books — for children or adults —
than Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 became the first black in the major
leagues. Stealing Home,
through text and paintings, tells his story in a different way, framed
around a brief shining moment in Robinson's storied career. In the
opening game of the 1955 World Series (when the Brooklyn Dodgers
finally beat the New York Yankees), he boldly stole home; "… and then
the wild, dust-cloud-heaving slide and quick foot under the too-late
tag." It notes Jesse Jackson's 1972 funeral eulogy: "Jackie danced on
the base paths, but it was more than a game."
" One
Giant Leap"
My new
book "One Giant Leap",
is another collaboration with my old friend Robert Burliegh, it is to
be released
in April, 2009. It is the bookend of our first book together,
"Flight. The Story of Charles Lindbergh". It is amazing to think that
only 42 years separated the two events that these two books
remember; Lindberg's first flight across the Atlantic and Armstrong's
first step on the moon. On July 20, 1969, as Americans sat glued to
their televisions and radios, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did the
seemingly impossible- something humans had dreamed of doing for
centuries: They traveled 240,000 miles through space and set foot on
the moon. One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.
"The Trial of Standing Bear"
By Frank Keating; Paintings by Mike Wimmer
In the Trial of Standing Bear, award-winning author and former Oklahoma Governor
Frank Keating tells of the anguish and resolve of Ponca Chief Standing Bear and
his people as they are forced from their homeland and their subsequent fight to
be treated like human beings. Through the historically accurate paintings of
Oklahoma artist Mike Wimmer, you will follow Chief Standing Bear, his family,
and members of his tribe from their forced removal from the banks of the
Niobrara River in northeast Nebraska to Indian Territory, and the ultimate
victory that began the long struggle for civil rights for Native Americans.
"The Pilgrim's Progress"
Written by John Bunyan, edited by C. J. Lovik, with paintings by Mike Wimmer.
Written in the form of a highly imaginative allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress
tells the unforgettable story of Christian and the extreme, soul-threatening
dangers he encounters on his journey to the Celestial City. But it is much more
than an allegory; in a sense, it is both the personal story of Bunyan and the
universal story of anyone who undertakes the same eternal pilgrimage. The result
is a masterpiece of literature as well as spiritual truth- a book that one time
was loved and read in nearly every home in England and North America, a book
that has endured as a classic for more than three centuries.
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showcasing how Mike got his
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