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The Promise of Peanuts: A real-life fairy tale

by Gwenyfar; Photographs by Maaike Brender á Brandis

26 pages; Saddle stitched; illustrated children's book; full color; catalogue #06-1842; ISBN 1-4251-0085-6; US$14.00, C$16.10, EUR10.92, £7.24

The story of a man, a village, and the promise that bound them together.

About the Book

This is a real life fairy tale about a man who makes a simple promise to help a small African village. On his journey to fulfill his promise he inadvertently invents a simple machine that is responsible for revolutionizing peanut farming across the third world and along the way he gets to meet President Carter, too! The Promise of Peanuts introduces science, social studies and each person's need to have a purpose in life. With beautiful color photos of all the real people involved in the story this book is part fairy tale, part National Geographic lesson. The Promise of Peanuts is sold as a fundraiser to support the peanut sheller. To learn more about the sheller please visit www.fullbellyproject.org.

About the Author

Gwenyfar lives in North Carolina with her Muse and her Bunny. She is an award winning playwright; and the author of Your Health Is in Your Kitchen: Why Momma Made Chicken Soup. Gwenyfar recently released a spoken word CD: What do you mean you're dead? She is currently working on her first novel and a Punk Rock Opera of Romeo & Juliet. She is excited to donate the profits of this book to furthering the work of the Peanut Sheller and Jock Brandis' other inventions.

For more info please visit www.Gwenyfar.com.