Books with author Kenneth O'Shaughnessy

This sparkling middle-grade debut is a classic-in-the-making! Maybelle Lane is looking for her father, but on the road to Nashville she finds so much more: courage, brains, heart--and true friends. Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him.Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring out of the car radio. Going against Momma's wishes, Maybelle starts listening to her radio DJ daddy's new show, drinking in every word like a plant leaning toward the sun. When he announces he'll be the judge of a singing contest in Nashville, she signs up. What better way to meet than to stand before him and sing with all her heart? But the road to Nashville is bumpy. Her starch-stiff neighbor Mrs. Boggs offers to drive her in her RV. And a bully of a boy from the trailer park hitches a ride, too. These are not the people May would have chosen to help her, but it turns out they're searching for things as well. And the journey will mold them into the best kind of family--the kind you choose for yourself.

These are the letters from Hana the cat to her dearly missed owner and her siblings. She was left without her favorite person for a full month. I promised Nancy a photo of Hana every day while she was gone, and Hana decided letters would be more appropriate, she being a literate kitty and all. So, with my little help, Hana wrote daily, mostly about what cats are most interested in - themselves!

This sparkling middle-grade debut is a classic-in-the-making! Maybelle Lane is looking for her father, but on the road to Nashville she finds so much more: courage, brains, heart--and true friends. Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him.Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring out of the car radio. Going against Momma's wishes, Maybelle starts listening to her radio DJ daddy's new show, drinking in every word like a plant leaning toward the sun. When he announces he'll be the judge of a singing contest in Nashville, she signs up. What better way to meet than to stand before him and sing with all her heart? But the road to Nashville is bumpy. Her starch-stiff neighbor Mrs. Boggs offers to drive her in her RV. And a bully of a boy from the trailer park hitches a ride, too. These are not the people May would have chosen to help her, but it turns out they're searching for things as well. And the journey will mold them into the best kind of family--the kind you choose for yourself.

“What’s for breakfast?” I ask Mum. She’s bustling around the kitchen in her bright yellow apron over her bright pink dress. They stand out against her dusty grey skin. She wears special gloves called Handz-On to make sure her fingers stay on her hands while she cooks and cleans.“I’ll have brainpancakes ready in a minute,” she says.Brainpancakes aren’t as scary as they sound. Well, they don’t taste scary. My mother serves them in plates that look like the tops of skulls. The pan puts grooves in them so they look like brains. And they have brains (not human!) in the batter.Maybe they are as scary as they sound._____________Ace has a problem with what's for breakfast. It's not too much spinach in the scrambled eggs - it's too much human baby!Join Ace's friends Drake the vampire and Accalia the werewolf, as together they try to save the baby from Ace's zombie family!

The Boy with the Pig Nose, written by Kenneth A O'Shaughnessy and illustrated by Kenneth A O'Shaughnessy and Andrew Cannon O'Shaughnessy is a story about accepting others for who they are. A mother is bothered by her son's pig nose, and wants something done about it. As her son changes, she is surprised to discover that it is her thoughts that really needed to change.The whimsical illustrations are "claymation" figures made by Kenneth and his 8 year old son Andy, for whom the story was created several years ago. This is their first book together.

Poetry. "Keith O'Shaughnessy has composed INCOMMUNICADO with extraordinary thoroughness. Sensuous images, swelling syntax, and haunting recurrences are here organized into a set of varied patterns at once intricate, gorgeous, and rigid. INCOMMUNICADO arranges its paradoxical shards—art, appetite, beauty, decay—into a lush and austere design. I know of no book like it."—Rachel Hadas"INCOMMUNICADO, yes. But not in the way one might first guess. The poems in Keith O'Shaughnessy's collection are ... accessible and memorable, full of vivid images ... These are poems—in the tradition of Augustine, Lao Tzu, Christian mystics, Zen—about the ineffable, that which must be spoken to but cannot be spoken of."—H. L. Hix"Keith O'Shaughnessy's book of poems INCOMMUNICADO is a marvel of craft and passion ... These poems are bold, they are well made, and they dare the reader to drop everything and join the dance."—Ifeanyi Menkiti

“What’s for breakfast?” I ask Mum. She’s bustling around the kitchen in her bright yellow apron over her bright pink dress. They stand out against her dusty grey skin. She wears special gloves called Handz-On to make sure her fingers stay on her hands while she cooks and cleans. “I’ll have brainpancakes ready in a minute,” she says. Brainpancakes aren’t as scary as they sound. Well, they don’t taste scary. My mother serves them in plates that look like the tops of skulls. The pan puts grooves in them so they look like brains. And they have brains (not human!) in the batter. Maybe they are as scary as they sound. _____________ Ace has a problem with what's for breakfast. It's not too much spinach in the scrambled eggs - it's too much human baby! Join Ace's friends Drake the vampire and Accalia the werewolf, as together they try to save the baby from Ace's zombie family!