Books

Children's Books

OOPS! Did I Say That - $12 
by Sarah Johnson
ISBN 978-0-9819591-0-8 • flipbook • © 2009
32 pages (6"X6")

OOPS! Did I Say That is a guide to positive support for cancer patients. It is a picture book intended for all ages. Parents, family, friends, and visitors of cancer patients always struggle with what to say to be supportive or encouraging. This book helps all visitors and caregivers to be sensitive to the emotional and psychological challenges. Inspired by her own experience with cancer at the age of 14, Sarah K. Johnson created this book in the hopes of helping the caregivers to relay their genuine concern for a patient.

Ants in the Band Room - $18 (includes audiobook CD)
written and illustrated by Laura Podeschi
ISBN 978-097874413 • paperback & audio CD • © 2006
32 pages (9.75" X 6.75") • $18.00 plus $2.50 postage

Ants in the Band Room is the story of a troop of ants who explore various musical instruments in search of a suitable home. Both parents and music educators alike have found Ants in the Band Room educational and inspirational for youngsters, motivating them to ask questions about music and musical instruments, while showing that everyone can find a place where they belong.

Trade Paperback Books

Millikin University Haiku Anthology - $25 
Edited by Dr. Brooks, Emily Evans, Rick Bearce & Melanie McLay
ISBN 978-0-9787441-6-8 • paperback • © 2008
192 pages (5.5” X 8.5”) • $25.00 plus $2.50 postage

The art of reading and writing haiku has been taught at Millikin University for over a decade, resulting in student publications in various literary journals. Their haiku are fresh, contemporary, and based on the feelings, insights and daily experiences of being a college student. This anthology includes 264 of the best haiku written by Millikin students and alumni. Each has been carefully selected to represent this haiku community, and to share the wonderful gift of haiku.

Art Exhibition Catalogs

Ray George: Life of a Master Printmaker - $40
by Edwin G. Walker
ISBN 978-0978744199 • paperback • © 2008
76 pages (8.5” X 12”) • $40.00 plus $2.50 postage

MillikinUniversity and Bronze Man Books are honored to present this catalogue and accompanying exhibition as a tribute to the artist-educator Ray George (1933-2005). It is our hope that this very important project will become a valuable resource for additional scholarship on the life and work of the incredibly versatile and talented artist, Ray George .

Robert Marshall Root: Something More Than Praise - $30
by Edwin G. Walker
ISBN 978-0-9787441-1-3 • paperback • © 2006
68 pages (8.5” X 11”) • $30.00 plus $2.50 postage

In the Spring of 2006, Millikin University organized the largest retrospective exhibition of art by the talented, yet lesser-known, regional artist from Shelbyville, Illinois, Robert Marshall Root (1863-1937). The exhibition and text were formulated to provide a broader perspective of his talent, while revealing his sense of intellectual honesty, his non-conforming belief system and his valiant quest to rise above mediocrity in his artistic expression. Based on new research, Professor Walker includes a bold proclamation in the text that Root was indeed and American Tonalist, unrecognized by the art establishment.

Eugene Carriere: Shadow and Substance - $40
by Dr. Shelley Cordulack
Edited & designed with a preface by Ed Walker
ISBN 978-0978744120 • clothbound • © 2006
88 pages (8" X 10") • $40.00 plus $2.50 postage

Eugene Carriere: Shadow and Substance is the exhibition catalogue from the Dr. Nick Vlachos art collection, which featured over 50 paintings by the French Symobolist painter (1849-1906). The exhibition and catalog were a collaborative effort between the Millikin University Art Department and the Decatur Area Arts Council. The book features an introduction by Dr. Shelley Cordulack, including the themes of the human condition as Carriere may have seen them.

Frederick Oakes Sylvester - $20
by Edwin G. Walker
ISBN 978-0-9787441-0-6 • paperback • © 2004
26 pages (8.5” X 11”) • $20.00 plus $2.50 postage

Living in a world of beauty and lifting the receptive to a better comprehension of its treasures was the life work of Frederick Oakes Sylvester (1869-1915). This exhibition catalog represents premium examples of the art he created throughout his life. The pieces for the catalog and exhibit were loaned to Millikin University for the 2004 Moore Lecture Series by three members of the Morrissey family.