The unlikely desert adventures of a charming sibling pair of armadillos has been a hit with Amazon readers for years, and we are proud to produce a new edition at OJP.
Most armadillos live in the tropics, but Armadillo Baby and Annabelli have found their way to the land of sand and pyramids. Their local friends and allies include Seflagori the camel and Noseberry the anteater. But the armadillos learn the hard way that others they encounter are far less reliable, and perhaps even sinister —like Elvis and Montmorency the Syrian crocodiles, Horatio the Hawk, and Rexi the angry water reed, as well as of certain humans, like Captain Fat-Face Shutemup and his communications officer Sparky Blabberon.
Their most enigmatic encounter is with the radiant, all-powerful, and sometimes funny beast named Raina Sparkle, a chimera of bat, dragon, and dinosaur. She is loving toward the armadillos, but frightfully intimidating and scary to anyone who dares to try and harm them...
About the author...
Dr. Robert Zamenhof graduated with a Ph.D. in applied radiation physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has spent his 35 year career in the fields of medical physics and nuclear medicine, mainly doing research, teaching, supervising students engaged in dissertations for their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, and helping federal government agencies in their international activities. He has taught engineering at Boston University, has been a research associate and visiting scientist at MIT, held professorships at Harvard Medical School, Tufts School of Medicine, as well as visiting professorships at Indiana University and the University of Buenos Aires Departments of Physics. He lives in South Woodstock, Vermont (where no one hurries or honks at you, and people eat dinner at 5.00 p.m.) with his physician wife Ruth, a Scottish Deerhound named Fledermaus-Houndlet, and a Bay Thoroughbred Mare named Pretty Mademoiselle. Robert and Ruth have a son, Alexander, who recently obtained his law degree in Boston, and also recently published a collection of poems called Flowing Muses—a Collection of Surrealistic Poems.
Sara Baker is an environmental artist with an M.S. in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who specializes in neon,
holographic sculpture, and light imagery. Never having attempted book illustration until this project with her co-author friend,
she has discovered new delights in this art-form. She has taught studio art and art history at Northeastern University and art history at Lesley University.
Her art has been exhibited in the US, Italy, and Greece (where she lived for a year with her husband, Elliot, a retired psychologist and playwright, and her three children).
Currently she is a resident of South Beach, Florida (people still hurry you and honk down there but dinner is eaten at a more respectable 8-9 p.m.), reveling in its natural beauty and the burgeoning art scene.