{"product_id":"barnaby-and-me-linn-sheldon-9781886228429","title":"Barnaby and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese amazing true stories from a pioneer of children's television are a remarkable mix of hilarity, melancholy, irony, and warmth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor 32 years, he was a six-foot-tall elf named Barnaby. That was the character Linn Sheldon played on Cleveland television, to the delight of three generations of children--and many grownups, too. The role made him a celebrity and defined an entire era of local TV.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarnaby was a masterful storyteller who spun imaginative tales out of thin air. But no story Linn Sheldon ever invented for Barnaby even compares with the real-life script he lived himself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe was caught in a Texas tornado, trapped in quicksand, and survived an airplane fire. He was accused of bank robbery and performed stand-up comedy at the point of a gangster's gun. He was fathered by a drifter, orphaned at birth by his mother's death, and later abandoned as a small, lonely child to fend mostly for himself. He quit high school to hitchhike across the country with little more than a banjo, and landed among the glitter of Hollywood with a job on the lot of MGM studios.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe fell in love--again and again. He broke into stage acting, helped invent television programming in the earliest days of Cleveland's first TV station, and became a celebrity. He made a lot of money--and lost most of it, as he drank away his health and the love of the people he cared about the most.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe sobered up, fought ill health, and fell in love again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn these 29 stories Linn Sheldon, master storyteller, shares his most intriguing tale yet: that of his own extraordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linn Sheldon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1886228426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781886228429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gray \u0026amp; Company Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.82h x 5.06w x 0.51d","brand":"Linn Sheldon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48873933340927,"sku":"9781886228429","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/barnaby-and-me-linn-sheldon-9781886228429","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}