Midway Barrel Racing Champion - Softcover

Shew, David; MS O; Toutant, Melissa S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1512728489 ISBN 13: 9781512728484

Publisher: WestBow Press, 2016

Synopsis

After self-publishing our first children's book entitled Midway Dreams and hearing from other writers that they don't understand our book and hearing their questions: Is it a picture book? Or is it an entertainment book? Or better yet, is it an educational book? My sister, Rhonda, and I decided to write a second children's book and use the same format. Rhonda will tell you that I always did travel to the beat of a different drummer and like to blaze my own trail and so does she, just ask Momma. That's enough about that. In addition, after creating a labor of love, Midway Dreams, Melissa Shew Toutant, who is my niece, Gil and Kathy's daughter and Amelia's sister, asked if she could join our family team and participate in writing the second book. For those of you who are new to our Midway family, I wrote the even chapters in Midway Dreams and my sister wrote the odd chapters since she is a bit different than me. In Midway Barrel Racing Champion, I only had to write every third chapter after Melissa joined our team. By the way, Melissa, like her Aunt Rhonda, is an elementary teacher at Athens-Chilesburg in Lexington, Kentucky. Our family is so proud of Rhonda and Melissa for becoming elementary teachers. I'm proud to say that we have now created our second in a series of Midway books. Hope you all enjoy Midway Barrel Racing Champion and get to know Maria, Midway's new friend. Remember to read for the rest of your life and dream big dreams. Hope to see you in Midway's Dreams soon.

About this title

About the Author

In 2011, I asked my sister, Rhonda, if she would co-write a children's book with me. Thankfully she agreed and we put our imaginations to work. About half way through the first draft, Rhonda said that we should make our children's book educational as well as entertaining so we did our research and added the factual information to "Midway Dreams."Rhonda is a fourth grade school teacher at Kit Carson Elementary School in Richmond, Kentucky. She earned her Masters Degree from the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program at Middlebury College, in Vermont and her Masters in Elementary Education from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. Rhonda has served as one of the writing instructors for Madison County and also taught several graduate level writing classes at Eastern Kentucky University. Today, besides a teacher and author, Rhonda is a proud mother and grandmother.Rhonda and I grew up working for our father in the newspaper business. At 22, my father appointed me the Editor of The Richmond Register. During high school and college, I opened the newspaper each morning and processed the Associated Press wire service which was very much an educational experience for me. In 1985, I became a certified public accountant and today my wife and I live in Lexington, Kentucky.Writing "Midway Dreams" was truly a labor of love for me. Hopefully Midway's dreams will come true, and Rhonda and I will get to write about them in the years to come.

Edition details

• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1512728489
• ISBN 13: 9781512728484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44