Allister Cromley's Fairweather Belle: (Bedtime Stories For Grownups To Tell): Volume 1 - Softcover

Portman, Shane J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615632637 ISBN 13: 9780615632636

Publisher: S. Portman, 2012

Synopsis

Allister Cromley's Fairweather Belle is an illustrated collection of bedtime stories that were written to give grownups something to read aloud to other grownups or quiet to one's own grownup self to invoke those childhood feelings of safety, wonder and even excitement in the face of all the questions that lay in the dark. Each sepia-tinted story was illustrated by a different artist and follows Allister, an introverted adventurer/philosopher/imaginator, on his journey through the early 20th century. He enlists in World War I, witnesses the awe and terror of the first escalator, becomes the most subtle of anarchists, dances with a bronze statue of Joan of Arc and even meets Winston Churchill (but not the Winston Churchill you may think). All the while, Allister is on a search to find the simple answers to the big questions and the complex answers to the small.

About this title

About the Author:

Shane Portman is a writer/script supervisor at Bix Pix Entertainment where he is the writer/co-creator of Moonlight Storytime, a series of shorts for HMH Publishing's Curious World app (and an official selection of the 2016 Annecy International Animation Festival), and the script supervisor for the Emmy/Annie/Annecy Award-winning Tumble Leaf for Amazon Studios. He started writing Allister Cromley's Fairweather Belle as a blog in 2002 and, in 2008, began crafting the stories into live storytelling experiences with directors, actors, and musicians in New York City. In 2012, the first set of 12 stories were published in a book that featured illustrations by 12 independent artists. And an additional 14 stories were spun into a podcast where each story was musically scored by a different guest musician. More information can be found at: www.fairweatherbelle.com

About this edition

• Publisher: S. Portman
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0615632637
• ISBN 13: 9780615632636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76
• Illustrator: Peters Annie, Cesen Dallah, B Emme, Martinez Kelly, Hickman Kristian Michael, Arrowood Lark O, O'Brien Marie Elena, Miskanin Angelica Joy, Peters A.D.