Description:
Tony watches cars and trucks go by outside the showroom. He dreams of driving over bumpy roads, like the purple truck with huge tires. Will Tony ever drive down bumpy roads and through tall grass? Will his dream ever come true?
Brief description: M. Jane Hawkins has been a junior high school English teacher, a stay-at-home-PTA mom, and a part-time employee at a regional running magazine where she sold advertisements, wrote and edited articles and eventually became editor. She has been a reading mentor for children and helped start a newspaper club in an elementary school. After staying busy with church work and volunteering, Jane dusted off the 10-year-old original draft of her story about a truck and a boy. She got serious about writing for children, joined SCBWI-OK, went to conferences and work-shops, and learned, learned, learned. That truck and a boy story became A Truck Named Tony, her debut picture book.