Yarn and the Lonely Road

by Robert W. Pomeroy

Overview

Yarn the sheep recounts new adventures while crossing his world's boundaries in Yarn and the Lonely Road. While exploring with a timid, sneaky mouse Yarn faces many dangers: some hard and dark, some prickly and sly, and even something shapeless, shifting, and more than slightly salty.

Yarn and the Lonely Road encourages children to travel through their own imaginary worlds, walking courageously down long and lonely roads.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012276308
Publisher:	eBookIt.com
Publication date:	03/16/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	607 KB
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Robert Pomeroy, a history graduate from Stanford University, served two years active service in the U.S. military, studied at the graduate Arab Studies Program at the American University of Beirut, then began a career in finance. This took him from Lebanon, Brazil, and New York to Washington, DC where, after 22 years of service, he retired as an Advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank. In this capacity he introduced the use of personal computers, and the subsequent design and implementation of the first electronic financial analytic models for project analysis.

During the 1970s, in response to problems voiced by unemployed history PhDs, he organized a Business Group for the American Historical Association's National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History. Later, in 1980, he helped found the National Council on Public History, serving as a director, secretary, and treasurer as well as an editorial board member of its journal, The Public Historian.

Later, Pomeroy co-edited The Craft of Public History (Greenwood Press, 1983) with the Department of State's Historian, David Trask and, as a member of the Organization of American Historians' Committee on Public History, wrote Educating Historians for Business: A Guide for Departments of History. He also addressed students, teachers, and business people on topics concerning history and careers at U.S. colleges, two government-sponsored Brazilian business forums, and the first French symposium on enterprise-based history as well as contributing numerous articles to educational journals, and serving on five college advisory boards.

In 1986 Pomeroy founded The Serenus Press to help history and liberal arts students choose a college major, reinforce reasons for diligent study, and provide concrete career options. Colleges and schools find multiple uses for Serenus Press material: career advisors hand them out to students as unique examples of nonacademic opportunities, college administrators find them helpful in recruiting high school students, and parents consult them to reinforce the value of a liberal arts education for their children. By 2006, Pomeroy wrote, published, and distributed over 370,000 copies of twenty nine Serenus Press publications to nearly half the colleges throughout the United States, as well as to numerous schools, historical associations, and libraries. A number of these publications may now be freely downloaded on the Serenus Press website.