I just noticed that the book I illustrated,'No Easy Way' is up on Amazon and available everywhere next month. The title is apt as it was no easy way all the way through what  with all the research, the drawing painting, and unexpected life issues.I now have more baseball gear from the 1940s in my propfile and have listened to more vintage baseball broadcasts  than anyone save the archivists in Cooperstown! 

The Junior Library Guild of Ohio (I got an award, complete with a pin) and the Beverly Hills librarian in charge of children's books really liked it, and I am awaiting some response from Red Sox town.

Lucia Monfried was a terrific art director through all this , as was Irene Vandervoort, the designer. I hope the author Fred Bowen, and Ted Williams' ghost, are happy, too.

This just arrived fedex. "No Easy Way" describes the book and the process of getting there, but the results are really quite pleasing. 32 pages. Period costumes! Human drama! Baseball! History with a great moral. Lucia Monfried and Irene Vandervoort get the design kudos, and the award of the century for patience. Solid story and if you have kids who like baseball, especially TED WILLIAMS, then this is a great book about perseverence, drive, and Ted's amazing .406 1941 season. Coming out this Fall.