Description
Very Good+ dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, color illustration of a boy on a bike looking back at a house. The Near Fine condition binding is tan cloth over boards, title in black lettering on front and spine. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by Herbert McLure. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.5″ tall x 5.8″ wide wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
When Benjy Cheney got a job as paper carrier along the awesome Mississippi River, with the boat people for his customers, he was expecting to meet some remarkable folks. And he did. There were Captain Van and Mr. Collins, to say nothing of Cap’n Hank, hard-boiled dockmaster at the Boat Club But Benjy wasn’t really prepared for the Barracudas, a gang of young hoodlums and thieves. Certainly he did not realize he would become involved in an evil plot that would threaten his whole family
In THE SECRET OF WILLOW COULEE Benjy comes to know the meaning of fear. But his sense of duty. loyalty, and friendship makes him the hero he deserves to be.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
LOUISE BOWER a native of Minnesota, was graduated from Ripley School of Nursing in Minneapolis. She has contributed articles to Child Life, and Children Limited.
A charter member of the St. Paul Association for Retarded Children, she is active also in the National Association. She states: “My main interest is working for the betterment of the program for the retarded.” For several summers Mrs. Bower and her husband lived on the Mississippi River aboard their cruiser, The Paulou. “It was from our life and experience on the river that the story of Benjy and his friends developed.”
Ethel Tigue, the daughter of Finnish immigrants, is a homemaker, freelance writer, and layout artist, in that order. She has been a teacher, counselor, and editor. In 1959, her first adult novel was published. Three years later one of her manuscripts won the $1,000 Mc-Knight Foundation Award.
A graduate of Minnesota State Teachers’ College in Duluth, Mrs. Tigue is married to a high school counselor. They have two sons. Mrs. Tigue works together with her family in Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorers and PTA.
