Rhode Island A to Z Coloring / Learning Book

LEARNING NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD! From johnnycakes to quahogs, from the Block Island Lighthouse to the Providence State House, this beautifully illustrated book gives readers hours of creative coloring fun as well as a wide array of fascinating facts about our nation's thirteenth colony.

• Created by award-winning artists from the state's Arts-in-Education Roster. • Curriculum based content with special educational copyright for classroom use. • Year 2000 grant recipient from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. • Author visits and residencies available.

Adam Gertsacov (author)

Adam is an internationally known theatre artist and educator. Adam is on the Rhode Island State Arts Council Education roster, and the NEFA touring roster. His work as an actor, director, clown, and playwright has been described as original, offbeat, hilarious, and thought provoking. He has performed his original shows from Boston to Brazil with standing ovations and sold out crowds.

Adam is a graduate of the Ringling Brothers Clown College, the University of Pennsylvania, Trinity Rep Conservatory, Rhode Island College, Dell'Arte School, and has studied with many clown luminaries, making him the most educated clown in America (barring certain elected officials.) Adam is the first and only Clown Laureate of Greenbelt, Maryland.

In 1998 Adam received a scholarship to attend the Bryant College Entrepreneurship Training Program, where he was selected by his classmates as the graduate valedictorian. He was also given a scholarship to attend the Tufts University Science and Arts Educators Workshop. As a writer, Adam has written plays, reviews, and articles , and has been published by Whole Earth Review, The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, New England Theatre Journal, Factsheet Five, Focus Magazine, and East Side Monthly.

This is his first book.

Donna Atwood (illustrator) Donna is an award-winning artist and graphic designer with over 25 years of professional experience. She has owned her own design studio for more than 20 years, and her clients have ranged throughout all sectors of industry, including real estate, commercial, non-profit, banking services, educational, and manufacturing. Her work has won dozens of design awards.

Since 1997 she has published and illustrated three coloring/learning books about the Southwest. Little Lords of the Desert, Ancient Harvest, and Sonoran Desert A to Z , which received a 1999 Glyph Award from the Arizona Book Publishers Association for best book from a new publisher.