Old Dumpling is an inventor, who lives on a Universe where it has never rained, but he knows the signs. He tries to warn the neighbors, but they laugh at him and won't listen anymore. He befriends Little Girl, and Young Boy, and discovers a surprising secret from another Universe. A story about friendship between Olders and Youngers, and why you shouldn't steal other people's ideas or throw rocks at glass houses.Old Dumpling is one of a series of books called "Imagine That! in which reader-listeners are encouraged to draw or cut and paste, their own illustrations. Quality 6 x 9 trade paperback, 55 pages, 5,998 words. $9.95

Shmadiggle and the Imagination Asteroid is fable for children and adults of all ages. Shmadiggle lives on Xiggle, a planet inhabited by people made our of springs, and she... Well, it's about youngers and olders who befriend one another and love giggle pies, practice for jiggle marathons and dream of far away places, and why, if you run away from a challenge you may finding it waiting for you, on Imagination Asteroid! The book is one of an "inter-active" series of books called, "Imagine That!" in which reader-listeners are encouraged to draw or cut and paste, their own illustrations on the blank page following each section of the story. Quality Trade 6x9 paperback 68 pages. $9.95

Sheriff Robert Gallegos, tall, handsome, quiet, friendly, Native American/Hispanic, an ex-WWII Marine is determined that the encroaching Juarez, Mexico drug cartel that will stop at nothing to take over his south eastern New Mexico, Aragon Valley - will not, on his watch, succeed. But as intimidation, rape and murder stalk the rural community, the reality of the threat, this summer of 1965, grows ominously closer. A man's man, with friends dating back to childhood and enemies current, romantic when the time is right, the Sheriff's real companion is Old Lady Sara Tree-Root Tampoya, the part-Hopi Medicine Woman who communicates with Grey Lady Between the Mountains, bringer of passages of life and of death, as he struggles to stay centered in the present and decipher the past, to understand who he really is. The wild red-dust wind gallops day and night through the streets of this fictional Aragon Valley county and town, situated near the Rio Grande, somewhere between Las Cruces and the borders of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad de Juarez, Mexico. Santa Feans, Easterners, Denver and West Coast hippies, foreigners and lovers are welcomed, Juarez drug cartel goons are not, and all soon learn to ask no personal questions.

Here is a cornucopia of more than 300 great recipes from the Golden Age of American Home Cooking, those wonderful days of hot dogs and hot dishes, of green bean salads and green bean casseroles. This book is a celebration of the times when life was simpler and when our whole family gathered around the supper table every night for wholesome, home-cooked meals. Whether you grew up in the 1950s or in the 1990s, these recipes will evoke a time and a table where the food was delightful, and when cleaning up our plates was pure joy. Book jacket.

Missy Mouse and the Rocket Ship is a fable for children. A story about family, true friends, and never giving up on your dreams!The book is one of an inter-active series by Claudia Carroll, called "Imagine That;" reader-listener-artists are encouraged to draw, paint, or cut and paste their own illustrations on the blank pages following each section of the story. Useful in an ESL classroom as well. Quality Trade Paperback, 6x9, 98 pages.

32 pgs, 1398 words, saddle stitch 6 x 9: extra pages for kids' creative illustrating! Clara Cow and the Country Fair is a read-to book for very young readers or ESL learners. The book is one of series of books, called, "Imagine That!" in which reader-listeners are encouraged to draw or cut and paste, their own illustrations. These will be books that parents will want to keep so the young reader, grown up, will have this treasure from childhood. Other books in the series include stories for reader-listeners 6 to 10: "Old Dumpling and the Rainy Day;" "Shmadiggle and the Imagination Asteroid;" "Missy Mouse and the Rocket Ship." Older elementary ages will enjoy both the play, and the book: "Clinton and the Treehouse."

A collection of poetry, reflections and short-short stories by Claudia Carroll (AKA CJ Carroll), written over a period of twenty years.

6 x 9 Quality Trade Paperback: A collage of excerpts from an inner and creative journal spanning twenty-two years, between 1990's and 2010. It is a journey through parallel worlds, that of the "real" and the necessary, and that, which often seems more "real" to me: my conversations with my "angels," in the inner and creative world. My quest did not begin twenty-two years ago, but is one that I feel I embarked on when I was born, perhaps even before I was born. The journaling of both my angst and achievements, and my time spent "in the presence of angels," some sensed, some imagined, some real people, some in nature, and even God's critters, has been of infinite personal value, especially as a road-map charting the paths I have traveled, from then to now to there and back again.I hope you will be encouraged to know that no matter the circumstances of your life at the moment there is a wisdom, a love, something beyond and above your circumstances that wishes to guide you toward a fulfilling life.