The Heights of Love
June 2024
ISBN: 978-1-986578-54-6
Retail: $16.99
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EMPORIA, KANSAS: Meadowlark Press is pleased to announce the newest children’s title on the Meadowlark bookshelf. The Heights of Love, a poem by Boyd Bauman, illustrated by Onalee Nicklin is about the lengths a father will go to for a daughter. A little girl’s request for a bunkbed, so that her daddy doesn’t have to lean down so far to kiss her goodnight, leads to lofty dreams. When “she longed for a bunk bed tall enough she could nest in that tree,” her father’s love compels him to comply. Soon, the girl is sleeping among the clouds and stars. But is she satisfied? The 32-page illustrated book is a great bedtime story for daddies and dreamers.
Bauman grew up on a small ranch south of Bern, Kansas, his
dad the storyteller and his mom the family scribe. He has published two books
of poetry: Cleave and Scheherazade Plays the Chestnut Tree Café.
After stints in New York, Colorado, Alaska, Japan, and Vietnam, Boyd now is a
librarian and writer in Kansas City, inspired by his three lovely muses.
The book is illustrated by Onalee Nicklin, best known for
her fantasy or “storybook” pencil drawings. The illustrations were done with
graphite pencils and colored pencils. Onalee lives in a small cottage on a farm
near Emporia, Kansas, with her husband, her cat, and numerous species of
wildlife. She is the illustrator of the Kansas Notable Book (2022), Ava: A
Year of Adventure in the Life of an American Avocet, story by Mandy Kern,
and the author/illustrator of To Hide a Hazelnut.
The Heights of Love is available through www.meadowlarkbookstore.com and wherever
readers buy books. Meadowlark encourages readers to support their nearest independent
bookseller by purchasing this and all books locally.
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