The pursuit of dreams and the resilience of the human spirit shine in this illustrated biography of one of the world's greatest sports artists. Growing up in the segregated south, Ernie Barnes loved to draw and rarely left home without his sketchbook. Shy, quiet, and often picked on, Barnes found his voice by painting what he observed in his surroundings. When he grew to be six foot three, he was recruited for the high school football team. Barnes would go on to make the NFL, play for the Colts, and paint his first football painting, The Bench. After leaving football for good, his professional dream was fully realized when he was invited to become the official artist for the American Football League: "When I became an athlete, I didn't stop being an artist." --Toadstool Books websiteInvestigative journalist Sandra Neil Wallace is an award-winning nonfiction author of books for young readers like Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights and Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story. Sandra is a former news anchor and ESPN sportscaster. The daughter of a refugee, she became a US citizen in 2016. Sandra is a member of the advisory council for the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College and is a member of the Keene Immigrant and Refugee Partnership. She lives in New Hampshire.
Join Sandra at Toadstool Books in Keene, NH on Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 1:00 pm where she will be signing her newest book!
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