Cleaver McBeaver & The Great Tornado (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517240394)

After a Batchelor's Degree in Fine Arts, with a minor in psychology from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA., (now Calif. Inst. of the Arts, Sylmar, CA) I was interested in becoming an Art Teacher, but was drafted and spent 2 years in the military. After returning home, the idea was dashed when I met and married my wife. Instead, She & I opened a computer graphics company in Lawndale, CA which thrived. Though always interested in writing, my literary interests were postponed by business demands. In 1996 we shut down our corporation & moved to Arizona. In 2010, I accepted a serendipitous commission to illustrate & design a group of feline characters with human talents & personalities for a children's card game. I then illustrated two kid's books for the same new company. This re-ignited my dream of combining my writing & caricature skills to publish children's books of my own. It was the perfect culmination of timing & synergy. My new client became a friend who helped reinvigorate my dreams of authorship. I wrote & illustrated my first book in 2012, then another in December, 2013. Two more were published Dec, 2014 & June, 2015. I just completed my favorite so far in October 2015 as a digital eBook. Now all books are in print form. I have now authored & illustrated numerous animal tales & Illustrated an author friend's 2 books & designed & illustrated his kid's card game. I promise many more in a series of children's animal tales.