Author: pmwalker552

Tale of the Runaway Shadow Completed

A collaboration with my son Blake as illustrator is published on lulu. We are submitting for wider distribution availability currently.

It is story time with our Great Grandma.  We love to listen to tales from her childhood.  Unusual things must have always happened in her little town surrounded by bayou swamps and thick forests.   

This one is a favorite about the young boy who lost his shadow.  It seems his shadow ran away in search of a more exciting life.

What will happen to a shadow that takes off on its own into the wild forests?  How would a boy looking quite strange without his shadow get one back?  Who would know the magic to set things right again?  How will this adventure end this time? What is your shadow doing when you’re not looking? 

Among others you will get to meet Priscilla Barbilla along the way in this tale.

A Story Discussion Guide is provided on this website here.

Introduction

Welcome to the author’s page for P. M. Walker

“Tell me a story, Grandaddy! Tell me one with a big bad wolf.”

“Again?”

“A different one.”

With that kind of urging and a deadline of bed time, I began telling and concocting stories regularly again once my grandchildren came into this world. This re-awakened the old love of making up stories for my children that had been moved to the background during my more “adult” career.

I turned some of those stories into privately printed picture books and later ideas into chapter books for them. These were only available to family. This pleasure between my grandchildren and me continues to inspire me to continue formalizing some of these stories and to offer to share them for other children to enjoy.  My sincere hope is to help foster in more children a love of seeking out books and tales to charge up their young imaginations.  

My life long love of literature, reading and writing has brought me much joy and benefit. It is something I wish to encourage in young minds at least in this small way by self-publishing. A wonderful unintended pleasure of this venture has been the family collaboration that has resulted.

My spouse Carol and I and our two children (now grown) settled in the high range prairie of Colorado over 25 years ago.  Following a career in management consulting, I retired to enjoy family and devote more time to writing these made up stories, which I discover during visits to the the Uncharted Range. 

No matter where their life adventures lead, may all our children always keep reading.  May they live fully and be able to leave wonderful tales of their own adventures in their wake. 

On this web page I will post information about the books as they are published, works in progress and related details.