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Jimmy Krack Korn's First Adventure

by Richard Allen (Dick) Carlson

30 pages; Saddle stitched; catalogue #04-1410; ISBN 1-4120-3582-1; US$17.50, C$20.00, EUR14.50, £10.00

"Hi, I'm Jimmy Krack korn, what should I call you?" "I don't care, " was the answer and Jimmy replied. "That's a fine name."

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About the Book

This is the story of an ear of corn that was just too curios to stay in the stalk and with all his faith, he grew arms and legs broke free and began to explore his surroundings. He has a close call with a cow before finding himself in the hands of a young girl who gave him the name of "Jimmy Krack Korn," but then by sleepy accident she lost him.

He then continued his exploration and met several other vegetables and fruits that had also come to life. Travelling together, they finally find Jimmy's young human friend and all are welcomed into her family with the reader's understanding that there will be more and better adventures ahead in additional books.

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About the Author

Richard Allen Carlson was born in Jackson Michigan on February 2nd, 1932 and lived in and around the city until 1946, when his family moved to Marshall, Michigan. He graduated from Marshall High School in 1950.

After Graduating from High School, he was employed as an oven man by what is now named Archway Cookies in Battle Creek. Shortly thereafter, Richard joined the U.S. Marines and is a veteran of the Korean War; being discharged as a Staff Sergeant.

He then went to school in Chicago, Illinois, where he worked in several drafting disciplines; finally settling for a career in technical illustration.

Later he moved his four children and his second wife to Pennsylvania, at which time he continued working as a draftsman and a technical illustrator for Shop-Vac Co.

He later found employment doing steel fabrication for highway bridge girders as a laborer and welder, before accepting an artist position with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (an agency of CDC).

Dick (as he prefers to be called) has fathered seven children and adopted three others (all of whom are now grown and have blessed him with a number of grandchildren).

He also has a U.S. Patent for a team chess game, for which he has not yet found a suitable manufacturer. It's unusual yet simple significance was reported in the New York Times and in the original publication called "Future Stuff."

Now he is enjoying retirement and with ideas for additional books featuring Jimmy Krack Korn with many new characters for Jimmy to have further adventures with.

Dick has also written a growing number of mostly humorous and spiritual poems for possible publication later on.

After Dick's third wife of twenty years passed away, he found a number of e-mail pals and finally went to Moscow, Russia to meet one of them. They knew almost at once they were compatible and after waiting a year for her to come to Cincinnati, they were married in July of 1999.

The two of them keep busy tending their small garden and their many flowers. Dick does his writing and illustrating during the time his wife Marina is at her workplace with Wal-Mart.

Note: For those that care to write him, his address is:
1514 Ambrose Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45224

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