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Check out http://strictlyforthebirds.org He’s written a best-selling business book, a widely-read inspirational book of one man’s victory over Lou Gehrig’s disease, three novels about the New Kids on the Block and nearly a dozen other “traditionally published” books. Now Ross Yockey goes publish-on-demand with Lulu.com for his most untraditional work yet. “We wanted to get this out quickly, to get people thinking about education education before No Child Left Behind destroys our teachers’ ability to educate the individual child,” says Ross. “The regular publishers couldn’t make that happen. And then there were those editors who assured us that ‘nobody cares about education.’”
Of her first book, artist and social critic Beth Yockey writes: “We felt a need for people to be able to talk about No Child Left Behind without getting instantly polarized, so we created the Bird Republic, where the president is the Eagle and Etta Cormorant the beleaguered principal and little Hannah Kiwi the unlikely misfit-hero. We wanted to find a way to get our book directly to the public at an affordable price, so we looked at all the options and chose Lulu.com.”
Ross and Beth Yockey have lived in New York, New Orleans and Charlotte, but now they make their homes in Seattle, where Beth’s mother, Jo Ann Yockey, is head of an independent school. To see some of Ross’s earlier 14 books, go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble. To contact the authors, write for_the_birds@comcast.net. We’d love to hear from you.
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Check out http://strictlyforthebirds.org He’s written a best-selling business book, a widely-read inspirational book of one man’s victory over Lou Gehrig’s disease, three novels about the New Kids on the Block and nearly a dozen other “traditionally published” books. Now Ross Yockey goes publish-on-demand with Lulu.com for his most untraditional work yet. “We wanted to get this out quickly, to get people thinking about education education before No Child Left Behind destroys our teachers’ ability to educate the individual child,” says Ross. “The regular publishers couldn’t make that happen. And then there were those editors who assured us that ‘nobody cares about education.’”
Of her first book, artist and social critic Beth Yockey writes: “We felt a need for people to be able to talk about No Child Left Behind without getting instantly polarized, so we created the Bird Republic, where the president is the Eagle and Etta Cormorant the beleaguered principal and little Hannah Kiwi the unlikely misfit-hero. We wanted to find a way to get our book directly to the public at an affordable price, so we looked at all the options and chose Lulu.com.”
Ross and Beth Yockey have lived in New York, New Orleans and Charlotte, but now they make their homes in Seattle, where Beth’s mother, Jo Ann Yockey, is head of an independent school. To see some of Ross’s earlier 14 books, go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble. To contact the authors, write for_the_birds@comcast.net. We’d love to hear from you.
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Strictly For The Birds
What’s the best way to fix a broken school system? Do we pump more money into it or pass more laws… or do we burn down the broken system and start over? Strictly for the Birds tackles these serious questions in the tradition of Orwell’s Animal Farm, turning students, parents, teachers and politicians into birds whose all-too-human shortcomings let us laugh at a tragedy in the making.
At Osprey-Bufflehead Middle School, teachers and administrators are tearing their feathers out over the latest governmental folly, the No Bird Left Out Act. “NoBLO” could make their school a no-show as far as salary increases and badly needed repairs. When an alien kiwi upsets the balance of skilled versus non-skilled students, the adults throw up their wings in despair… but in a dramatic and surprising turn of events, little Hannah Kiwi may have just the right talents to save the day.
Print: $16.95
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Strictly For The Birds
EBOOK ONLY
A send up of the No Child Left Behind Law. Available in EBook or in print. Please visit our storefront to learn more - http://www.lulu.com/Yockey
Here’s a novel that makes us think as it entertains, published on Lulu.com to make it available at an affordable price to the wide audience it deserves.
Download: $2.00
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Calendar 2009
2009 Calendar with hand drawn dates and original watercolor art
Print: $18.00
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2008 Calendar
Print: $21.91
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