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Allister Cromley's Fairweather Belle: (Bedtime Stories for Grownups to Tell) by Shane J Portman (Paperback / softback, 2012)

Allister Cromley's Fairweather Belle is an illustrated collection of bedtime stories that were written to give grownups something to read aloud to other grownups or quiet to one's own grownup self to invoke those childhood feelings of safety, wonder and even excitement in the face of all the questions that lay in the dark. Each sepia-tinted story was illustrated by a different artist and follows Allister, an introverted adventurer/philosopher/imaginator, on his journey through the early 20th century. He enlists in World War I, witnesses the awe and terror of the first escalator, becomes the most subtle of anarchists, dances with a bronze statue of Joan of Arc and even meets Winston Churchill (but t the Winston Churchill you may think). All the while, Allister is on a search to find the simple answers to the big questions and the complex answers to the small.

Illustrator(s)
Annie Peters,Dallah Cesen
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Shane Portman is a writer/script supervisor at Bix Pix Entertainment where he is the writer/co-creator of Moonlight Storytime, a series of shorts for HMH Publishing's Curious World app (and an official selection of the 2016 Annecy International Animation Festival), and the script supervisor for the Emmy/Annie/Annecy Award-winning Tumble Leaf for Amazon Studios. He started writing Allister Cromley's Fairweather Belle as a blog in 2002 and, in 2008, began crafting the stories into live storytelling experiences with directors, actors, and musicians in New York City. In 2012, the first set of 12 stories were published in a book that featured illustrations by 12 independent artists. And an additional 14 stories were spun into a podcast where each story was musically scored by a different guest musician. More information can be found at: www.fairweatherbelle.com
Date of Publication
15/11/2012
Country of Publication
United States

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