Marie Bishkee is unhappy. Her best friend left town, maybe forever, and Marie has no one her own age to play with in the neighborhood.
Then one day, while riding her bike, she discovers a small garden full of leafy green tomato plants. Racing home, she tells her mother that she wants to grow her own tomatoes.
Aft... er her mother agrees to let her buy one tomato plant, and her grandmother shows her how to protect it from cutworms, she plants it. And even though her brother tells her it will probably die, Marie insists that it will live! And it does. However, instead of many tomatoes, it produces only one, but what a marvelous tomato it turns out to be.
Find out what happens as Marie's tomato grows and grows and grows. Will her dreams come true? Will this be her best summer ever?read more
BIOGRAPHY I'm a former grade school teacher who always wanted to write a children's book, and I wanted it to be about frogs. And it was. I hadn't planned on writing any more books, but I ended up writing four more. I'm working on my sixth book right now.
I never dreamed I would be an illustrator. After failing to get so... meone to illustrate my first book, I didn't know what to do. Then a relative suggested I illustrate my book myself. It took me seven hours to draw my first character. Now, I enjoy drawing my different characters.
Since I taught fourth and fifth grade for many years, I used the experiences of the classroom for my award-winning second book.
I also enjoy writing poetry, painting pictures on small wooden blocks, craft fairs, camping in our RV, and being a news junkie.read more