Calvin and the Red Neck Wagon
2nd Edition
Published on 24. February 2023
Book
Hardback
38 pages
978-1-950323-94-4 (ISBN)
Description
In Calvin and the Red Neck Wagon, young Calvin asks Dad for a wagon, but Dad suggests rather than buy one, they drive to rural Virginia to visit Auntie Carol and Uncle Loren to build a wagon from used car and truck parts where Uncle Loren has stored many old cars up on blocks under blue tarps.
Together, Uncle Loren, Dad, and Calvin search for used parts and build a 6-foot wagon complete with truck steering wheels for tires, a truck toolbox for a wagon bed, dual mirrors, and a red fuel filler neck from an ancient VW Beetle. They even found a Hurst shifter knob to accent the wagon handle. For authenticity, an actual photo of the completed wagon appears in the back of the book.
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Series
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 4 to 10 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-950323-94-4 (9781950323944)
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Fred Neff has published numerous magazine articles, as well as children's books and a non-fiction self-help book titled Clues to Success-Making Rhyme out of Reason. He received his bachelor's degree in Journalism from San Diego State University and was also on the start-up staff as an intern for a new publication, gaining his first byline in the premier issue of San Diego Home/Garden Magazine. Prior to SDSU during the waning years of the Vietnam conflict he served aboard a Destroyer, a Submarine Tender, and then the fast-attack submarine, USS Gurnard (SSN-662), for the remainder of his six years of active duty in the U.S. Navy. While much of his desire to write over the years was fashioned after internalizing the positive messages from self-help books and seminars, he also began writing and publishing children's books after his son, Calvin, was born in 2005. According to Fred, when people started buying his Calvin and Dad books and then continued to purchase them, he no longer harbored the doubts that keep many writers from sharing their works with the public. Then on a dare from one of his co-workers to give back to the community, he designed and taught a night course, How to Write a Children's Book, where he helped many students realize their dreams of becoming a published author. Some of them to date have been published numerous times.