The Life of a Teddy Bear Family (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781490977980)

Clarence Robert Tower is a lifelong resident of California's Silicon Valley. His career as an artist began with winning a purchase prize for the first oil painting ever entered in competition. With that as his encouragement, he went on to accumulate over 400 pieces of artwork. The teddy bear drawings shown in the book were completed more than 40 years ago, as a gift to his late wife, Nadine, who was the middle child of three. Her younger sister was named Rowena and the oldest was named Goldine, which explains the naming of the three bears in the story. After completing the published book Seventy Years in the Silicon Valley, an Anecdotal History and the novel, The Adventures of Zack Gentry, a Tongue-in-Cheek History of the Opening of the West, he was asked by a great-granddaughter why he hadn't written a children's book. With that in mind, he went on to complete this book, The Life of a Teddy Bear Family, which utilizes an assortment of forty years of his art work.