Books with author Adam Wallace

Filled with belly laughs and fits of giggles, Life Lesson #21...Don’t Pick Your Nose! by Amy Wallace is first in a delightfully amusing, exceptionally entertaining children’s series that offers straightforward approaches in teaching young children a few of life’s more important lessons. Perfect for beginning and intermediate readers, even the youngest of no-no-nose-pickers will sing the book’s refrain, “But don’t use your fingers to pick your nose!” As readers will learn, there is any number of things girls and boys can do with their fingers. There’s picking flowers. There’s picking up toys. Kids can use their fingers to pet their dog or draw a picture of their cat, but not under any circumstance should they ever, ever be used to pick their nose.

Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed “the Godfather of the New Age.” The possibility that Castaneda’s experiences may have been fabricated did little to compromise his legend.As the daughter of best-selling novelist Irving Wallace, Amy was rarely shy around famous people. When her father insisted she meet Castaneda, she at first demurred. Little did she know that a delightful first meeting would begin a 20-year friendship, followed by her descent into the dramatic and deeply troubled affair chronicled in this book. Sorcerer’s Apprentice unblinkingly reveals the inner workings of the “Cult of Carlos,” run by a charismatic authoritarian in his sixties who controlled his young female followers through emotional abuse, mind games, bizarre rituals, dubious teachings, and sexual excess. Wallace’s story is both specific and universal, a captivating cautionary tale about the dangers of giving up one’s power to a tyrant–and about surviving assaults on body and spirit.

Great for ages 2 to 11, Mac O'Beasty is a rollicking, rhyming story about a big-eating, nonexercising Scottish monster. In a fun way, the book teaches children the about the importance of healthy eating and exercise. Mac O’Beasty is a huge Scottish monster who dreams of traveling the land, playing his bagpipes. Every time he plays, all the other monsters danced and danced and danced. How they loved to hear him. Mac sadly wished he could dance to music, but he was too big and fat. He had never run, or climbed a tree even. Mac loved eating sugary food and fatty, yucky junk food, and it was making him so fat, he could hardly move. The book contains amazing full-color illustrations by the very talented Heath McKenzie.