DRAGONFLY 3.5X5.25 BLOCK douglas creek — Hobo Jim

— Hobo Jim

There are more than 1 million books in print illustrated by artist and illustrator Shannon Cartwright

One would see his little charge bouncing and laughing gleefully all the way to school

the wording of a contract or the way a mother raises a child

DRAGONFLY 3.5X5.25 BLOCK douglas creek — Hobo JimArtist Douglas Francois Girard of Studio Girard says, "I had a very pleasant childhood and enjoyed exploring the landscape and viewing the varied wildlife that the continent offers but the grasslands and rolling hills of Africa never inspired me as did the mountains of the northern continents. I longed to be in northern forests looking out across a vista dominated by towering mountain peaks. These distant places of my imagination became symbols for me