Climbing Daddy Mountain
by J. D. Stahl, illustrated by Joni Pienkowski, based on photographs by Sarah J. Windes, book design by Laura V. Cook and Allison Bridendall

• J. D. Stahl is a professor of children's literature in the English Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. This is his first published book for children.

• Joni Pienkowski is an internationally recognized artist who has shown her work in galleries, museums, and various other institutions across the United States.

• On the subject of Children's literature, Dr. Stahl writes, "Children's literature is at the center of my research program because it is for me an enormously rewarding field of literary study. It not only enlists approaches from history, sociology, psychology, literary studies and educational theory, it represents, at its best, a body of complex and aesthetically and intellectually demanding literary works."

• ISBN 978-0-926487-25-3
  • 28 pages + cover, 9 inches x 9 inches, paperbound
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