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Bronze Man Books is a student owned and operated press located in Decatur, Illinois. We are committed to the integration of high-quality design and meaningful content.
New Trade Paperback
Let's Talk Kids: Becoming a Family
by Claudia Quigg
ISBN 978-0-9819591-6-0
paperback © 2013 • 178 pages (6" X 9”)
$16.00 plus $2.50 postage
Illinois residents add 9% sales tax ($1.44 per book)
In Let’s Talk Kids: Becoming a Family Claudia Quigg invites parents, expectant and otherwise, to share with her the experiences of bringing up children in our families.
By compiling well-loved articles from her weekly news column "Let's Talk Kids," Quigg hopes to inspire parents to reflect and find their own best answers about how to raise their own unique children.
Let’s Talk Kids: Becoming a Family is not an advice book, but rather a collection of stories that prompt reflection and invite parents to thoughtfully consider their own approach to bringing up their little ones. her.
See our PRESS KIT of photos, flyers, graphics, and statements from the author and artist: <Let's Talk Kids: Becoming a Family PRESS KIT>.
The 178-page book is available for $16 plus $2.50 postage. (Contact rbrooks@millikin.edu for special orders or quantity discounts.)
New Children's Book
Am I Like My Daddy? - $12
by Marcy Blesy
illustrated by Amy Kuhl Cox
ISBN 978-0-9819591-3-9 • 48 pages (8" X 10”) paperback © 2012
December 2012
Am I Like My Daddy? is an important book in the children's grief genre. Many books in this genre deal with the time immediately after a loved one dies. This book focuses on years after the death, when a maturing child is reprocessing his or her grief. New questions arise in the child's need to fill in those memory gaps.
Grace is a little girl who wonders if she is anything like her daddy. She uses the process of journaling to discover more about her deceased father.
The Am I Like My Daddy? web page. See the book reviews!
See the author's blog about the release celebration.
See the illustrator's web site about the process of illustrating this book.
See Marcy Blesy interviewed about the book on Michiana, a PBS television program. Her segment starts at about 18.5 minutes. Here is the link : <http://video.wnit.org/video/2314557027/> December 10, 2012.
The 48-page book is available for $12 plus $2.50 postage. (Contact rbrooks@millikin.edu for special orders or quantity discounts.)
Recent Chapbooks
Map to the Multiverse
by Emma R. Wilson
graphic design by Charlie Huth & Kt Krekel
illustrattions by Jess Black
ISBN 978-0-9819591-7-7
© 2013
hand-sewn saddle-stictch binding
52 pages (5" X 6.5”)
$12.00 plus $2.50 postage
Bronze Man Books is pleased to announce the publication of Map to the Multiverse by Emma R. Wilson.
This collection of poery is a hand-sewn chapbook featuring works that celebrate the movement and creativity of the imagination. "You sense in reading Emma R. Wilson's poems that almost anything can happen in them and be completely believable. They introduce a new kind of space-age, pop-culture carnivalesque." ~Stpehen Frech, introduction.
Winter Hearts
by Jackson Lewis
illustrations by Monica Smith
graphic design by Chelsea Arnold
edited by Taylor Chaney
ISBN 978-0-9819591-4-6
© 2012
hand-sewn saddle-stictch binding
40 pages (4" X 6”)
$12.00 plus $2.50 postage
See the Winter Hearts web page.
Bronze Man Books is pleased to announce the publication of Winter Hearts by Jackson Lewis. This collection of tanka and is a hand-sewn chapbook.
"The collection of tanka is rich, contemplative, full of powerful imagery and haunting, unspoken questions. It is an exciting reminder of the ways in which a tradition hailing from Japan's earliest poetic roots can live on through the pens and lives of some of today's most skillful writers." Joseph Bein.
tea's aftertaste
by Aubrie Cox
graphic design
and original pencil illustrations by Katie Baird
ISBN 978-0-9819591-2-2
© 2011
hand-sewn Japanese binding
48 pages (5.5" X 5.5”)
$12.00 plus $2.50 postage
Special limited edition hand-colored copies numbered and signed by the author and illustrator are $25.00 plus $2.50 postage.
See the tea's aftertaste web page.
Bronze Man Books is pleased to announce the publication of tea's aftertaste by Aubrie Cox. This collection of haiku and senryu is a hand-sewn chapbook featuring 40 poems written and published during the author's four years at Millikin University.
