About this Item
Grandpa Bear's Christmas by Bonnie Pryor, illustrated by Bruce Degen. Hardback story/picture book is quite clean and in very good condition and is autographed & inscribed by the author on free front endpaper. Dust jacket is very good and in a Brodart protector-nice looking book. NOT AN EX-LIB!. Seller Inventory # 25308
Bibliographic Details
Title: Grandpa Bear's Christmas
Publisher: William Morrow & Co, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hard Cover
Illustrator: Degen, Bruce
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author
About this title
"I grew up in Spokane, Washington, the middle child in a family of three girls. Books were a part of my life from as far back as I can remember. I was often in trouble for reading at the wrong time. I would be caught reading under the dining room table when I was supposed to be dusting, or reading under the covers by flashlight late at night-even hiding a novel inside my textbooks at school.
"Not everyone thought I read too much. I remember a school librarian who saved all the new books for me to read first, and on several occasions she gave me presents of books. Perhaps she felt she should because I had read every single thing in her library!
"I was very shy, and, like Robert in The Plum Tree War, I spent a lot of my time hanging from my knees from a favorite plum tree, telling myself stories. Of course since I was raised in the West these stories were usually about wild horses and cowboys, and I was always the heroine who came to the rescue. The stories were long and involved, sometimes going on for days. I was always impatient to get to my tree each day so I could find out what was going to happen next, but I was too lazy to write the stories down.
"I think everyone expected me to become a writer, but it took me twenty years and a gentle nudge from my husband, Robert, to build up the courage to try. In the meantime I moved to Ohio, worked at a variety of jobs, and raised a family. I have four grown children, eight grandchildren, and two daughters still at home-Jenny and Chrissy. Many of my books are loosely based upon incidents in my children's lives, and they often appear as characters, in personality if not by name.
"My family recently moved to the country. When I'm not writing and visiting schools, we're busy building barns and fences and laying out flower beds. In addition, we all take part in caring for the four newcomers to our home: three horses and a bunny!"
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