Execution politics aren't pretty. As governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton left the campaign trail in 1992 to personally oversee the execution of a brain-damaged man, Ricky Ray Rector, and prove his tough-on-crime bona fides.
Will he ever find a way to tell the people that he wants blueberry pie? And will they make him one? This book, originally published in 1961 by Jane Thayer, the pen name of Catherine Woolly, is representative of the high quality stories that were written for young children in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60's.
Mundy stories. Bluebeard is best known as the title character of the French fairy tale of the same name, written by Charles Perrault and first published in 1697. In the original tale, Bluebeard is a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard, who has married several times but whose wives all vanished without trace.