![]() ![]() It is a fantasy adventure that is a lot like the worlds that got him hooked on words to begin with. Eventually, he began work on “Senlin Ascends”. His debut novel, and the first from Bancroft’s “Babel” series was published in the year 2013, and was called “Senlin Ascends”.īancroft began writing novels at the young age of twelve, and once he finished his first, he was hooked. They have played, recorded, and performing original tunes for a few years. His band is made up of Will and Benjamin (brothers that he has had since he was sixteen) and his wife. ![]() He shares a home with his wife and Mabel and Chaplin (their rabbits) in the city of Philadelphia. Bancroft enjoys cooking, everything about it the spices, the smells, and the injuries, too. When he is not busy with his writing, he likes to play post pop music with Dirt Dirt (his band), cooking pub curry (a dish he feels he has never made the same way twice) for Sharon, his wife, and drawing chalk pictures on a wall in his office. He even found a rejection letter he got in the year 1999 from Marvel Comics. Before becoming an author of fantasy novels, Josiah Bancroft was a college instructor, a poet, and aspired to become an artist for comic books. ![]()
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![]() Repeatedly the skull shape attributed to Bigfoot has been large, prominent brow, powerful jaw, and pointed head. This odd skull above from the Humboldt Sink didn’t belong to any known Amerindians was not only ancient, but showed another race of man here on the continent long ago. Victoria, Texas - land of the extinct tribe of Karankawa What we have to wonder is where do today's Bigfoot stand in this lineup of man in both "archaic" and "modern" forms, as well as races within each branch? Do we share ancestors? Do we share genes? Is there any chance we ever mated in the past and produced offspring? ![]() For instance, Neanderthal genes likely helped our coloring to handle less sunlight by developing more vitamin D when we did encounter sunlight and Denisovans made it possible for today's Sherpa to live at high elevations and tolerate it readily, as well as cold tolerance for the Inuit People. But, they also helped us make a leap from our African origins to northern climate adaptation very quickly. This introduction of other chromosomes might have helped us to be stronger in certain arenas, and more vulnerable and disease-prone in others. Only recently we discovered that today’s Homo sapiens carry DNA of Denisovans, Neanderthal and another, as of yet unnamed, archaic man. ![]() ![]() Throughout man's development to what we are today, there was interbreeding among sometimes fairly disparate relatives. This evolutionary lineup of man (above) is not really accurate. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also liked making use of the pregnant pause… ramping up the anticipation. ![]() The Belloc, particularly, has a very teasing quality to it, which he was very good at capturing. He read them with relish and great theatricality. I remember the tone of my father’s voice reading Hillaire Belloc and Edward Lear verses & Cautionary Tales… which I loved… as did he. Now Ed Vere is back with a new series of picture books about a scrap of a black kitten first seen in Max the Brave. The sequel, Max at Night was published this month and follows Max as he turns superhero, fearlessly prowling the city at night.Įd’s picture books draw on classic comic book action and have bold graphic design elements, so I was interested to find out the books that shaped him as an author. ![]() Big, the jazzy gorilla who showed that sticking out in the crowd could be a very good thing. It captures perfectly the anger, frustration and unfulfilled desires of children who aren’t yet able to form full sentences, but know very well what they want. Amongst these treasures are two stories from the imagination of Ed Vere.įirst came Banana, a masterpiece of expressive comedy which contains just two words – ‘Banana’ and ‘Please’. As a result, looking at their books from just a few years ago sends me into paroxysms of nostalgic reverie. ![]() As my children push towards the big one-o, I find myself the only regular reader of picture books in our house (although my daughter still indulges me). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maverick tells Lisa about his son and she breaks up with him. To help him in this endeavor, Dre pressures Maverick into accepting a job working for Mr. Dre insists that Maverick is a father now, so he needs to step up and be the father his son deserves. (whom Maverick has begun to call “Li’l Man”) and to tell Maverick to stop selling hard drugs behind the gang’s back. He stops by several times to help Maverick with King Jr. His older cousin Dre, one of the leaders of the King Lords, already has a three-year-old daughter. It’s the messiest, most exhausting weekend of Maverick’s life. home, expecting to have him for the weekend. After getting the results at the local clinic, Iesha abandons the baby with Maverick and his Ma. after King, who was previously believed to be the father. But Maverick’s life turns upside-down when, a few weeks before he starts 12th grade, a DNA test reveals that he fathered a baby with King’s girlfriend, Iesha when he and Lisa were briefly broken up. He also has a beautiful girlfriend named Lisa. Maverick has been a member of the King Lords gang since he was 12 in addition to selling cannabis for the gang, he and his best friend King sell hard drugs on the side. ![]() |