Books with author T. B. Christensen

Woody Guthrie spent his life putting into words and music what the rest of America was thinking. He roamed from coast to coast and captured the despair of those displaced by the Great Depression and the dust bowl, eulogized workers, and celebrated the great natural beauty of America. This is an introductory biography presented as a picture book with a brief lyrical text and powerful, hand-tinted, woodcut-like illustrations. It includes the complete lyrics to “This Land Is Your Land” and excerpts from his other songs. A book for all ages, it makes this talented and tragic man accessible to young children and will please his older folksinging fans with its stunning art.

The Professor, our Scottish Deerhound takes us to the forest, where he discovers a lot about animals and plants. He larns a little about biology and physics, there are ups and downs in the family's life, but we learn about things many would not even know exist. This book is based on things that did actually happen, but here they are told from the view of a somewhat precocious, stubborn and very curious dog's eyes and nose. 66 pages with text, photos and illustrations.

Our Scottish Deerhound - The Professor, enjoys the winter as there is a visit to their home. The visit is not without consequences. A family member gets in danger, but the situation gets handled, although not completely ideal. We learn a little about first aid, and what to do... But most important. Cat Mum has found a treasure map, and she wants the Professor to investigate about that map. The research of our Profesor does bring results, that makes us learn about antiquity. As usual there is some biology and physics involved, but they also meet a very strange person. This book is based on actual episodes, but are told to us by a precocious, somewhat stubborn, and very curious Scottish Deerhound. 66 pages with text, pictures and illustrations.

Welcome to New Londinium, a city that developed from an enclave of stragglers who survived the culminating blast of the last world war. From beneath the lee of a mountain formed as a result of the devastation, a colony gathered and grew. After several hundred years, this post-apocalyptic city is filled to bursting, and everyone—well, nearly everyone—is struggling for a place amidst the city’s Chosen, the elite ruling faction.Robert Mayhew, by all appearances, is a man destined to be numbered amongst these Chosen. But Mayhew is both more than and less than he appears. His unauthorized conception, and a hideous deformity that was the result of his failed termination, have left him with a bloodthirsty lust to exact vengeance on the system that conspired to kill him even before he’d drawn his first breath.In his position as chief curator of the Absinthe Moon—the city’s center of love and leisure—and supported by the Resistance, Mayhew is in just the right position to infiltrate the Icarus Project—the executive body of the city's shadow government—and bring the whole system toppling down. So long as no one gets in his way.Enter Emaline Newell. Utterly devoid of any evidence of the city’s taint, she is a valuable asset to the Absinthe Moon, and to Mayhew in his aims to achieve elite status. As his consort, she might give him just the advantage he needs.Only Emaline has some ideas of her own, and perhaps a few things to teach him about love, loyalty, and the power he wishes to wield.

"I don't wanna go through the rest of my life wonderin' if I'm gonna wake up dead tomorrow." The year is 1973. Life as a young teenager growing up in rural poverty has molded 18 year old Jake Callahan's thoughts and actions into finally seeking independence in this sequel to The Last Test and Wilderment. On a whim and through some questionable resources, Jake finagles a way to travel to Florida and look up his old bus driver, Joe MacPherson, a character from the original first book of the series, Throne to the Dogs. Joe and his wife, Gracie, gladly give Jake a place to stay while he learns a trade and eventually makes new friends, including Nathan Steward, a local musician/celebrity/carpet installer. But true to his nature, Jake discovers his friends are of a questionable character. Not only does Jake innocently and unexpectedly fall into associating with members of a newly formed band of rock musicians of which Nathan is a member, he becomes their manager. But the promoter/financier backing the group is a narcotics dealer from the east coast named Mr. Whipple, who wants to wash his dirty money clean with a legit enterprise. Mr. Whipple presses Jake into serving as his advertiser to arrange potential buyers of his illicit and ill-gotten 'wares' in exchange for the position Jake will assume managing the band. Entwined with the music and illegal drug business is the beautiful and mysterious Willow. Against his friends advice and Jake's own better judgement, Jake becomes involved with Willow despite the fact that she belongs to the dark, devious and insanely jealous Mr. Whipple. Greater problems ensue when Jake eventually makes a connection with Brian Feldt, a buyer from his home town back in Iowa City. As Sheriff Judson Pierce slowly closes in, can Jake juggle being a manager on both sides of the law while not being tarnished by either enterprise and yet still win the girl in the end? This is a story of choices, their consequences and good triumphing over evil through love and self-redemption and is suitable for ages 14 and up.

Acclaimed author-illustrator Bonnie Christensen adopts the voice of Galileo and lets him tell his own tale in this outstanding picture book biography. The first person narration gives this book a friendly, personal feel that makes Galileo's remarkable achievements and ideas completely accessible to young readers. And Christensen's artwork glows with the light of the stars he studied.Galileo's contributions were so numerous—the telescope! the microscope!—and his ideas so world-changing—the sun-centric solar system!—that Albert Einstein called him "the father of modern science." But in his own time he was branded a heretic and imprisoned in his home. He was a man who insisted on his right to pursue the truth, no matter what the cost—making his life as interesting and instructive as his ideas.