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.
Madeleine L'Engle was chiefly a children's author known for such works as 'Meet the Austins' and 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Who Was Madeleine L'Engle? Madeleine L'Engle published her first novel, The Small Rain, in 1945. Four years later, she published her first children's book, And Both Were Young (1949). After struggling for several years, LâEngle began a series of juvenile fictional works about the Austin family with 1960's Meet the Austins. Two years later, she earned acclaim for A Wrinkle in Time.