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The Herald And The Lanlern

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Book Autograph Party To Feature Children’s Author

STONE HARBOR - To celebrate the publication of a very specail new book for children. "Blackbeard the Pirate and Other Stones of the Pine Bairens,'‘ <by Larona Homer, the Seven Mile Beach Book Shop in Stone Harbor wil sponsor aYi autographing party

their ships up its narrow waterways and into the concealing darkness of the pine woods To writers and children, it is a legendary land where strange.

unexplaiftabk things have Devil Isn't good for much more than occasionally blowing the tops off trees, and now and then turning milk sour.

“Blackbeard...” A Review

Saturday. October77. from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. All area children, along with their favorite adults, are invited to meet the author, who will read stories from the book and autograph copies for all who want them. The ancient sage who once said, “A great man is one who has not lost his child's heart," would have approved of Larona Homer. Her new book, just published by The Middle Atlantic Press, Wallingford. Pa. is a charming collection of stories that brings to life the people, places and. of this .unique Pine Barrens today ins almost as rious to moat people as it was hundreds of years ago. when pirates sailed

by Lis Woods Hlarkbrartl The Pirate anokother Sinrlrs of the Pine Barrens" by lairona Homer (MMdle Atlantie Press. 9S pagr*. illustrated. Just in time for Christmas. "Blackbeard the Pirate and Other Stories of the Pine Barrens" by retired fourth grade teacher larona Homer who lives on the edge <if the Pine Ha from should be an attractive offering to local parents, libraries and ugnools anxious to introduce young readers to the fascinaUng lore of New Jersey 's Pmekmds. Mrs Homcf has obviously well researched some of the .more famous legends and leads her reader through a well thought nut maze of eight ihort stories using fictional children to depict events and personalities that evoke interest in following the trails of early settlers as well as the romantic figure of Blackbeard the Pirate and the oIikIvc Jersey Devil. Mrs. Homer does not ignore the commonplace and artfully uses her research to heighten a reader's curiosity in what everyday life was like for the various kinds of people who lived amongit the Pine Barrens Especially interesting are the stories of James Sfill. "The Black Doctor of the Pines" and "The Traveling Medicine Show", about a father and his young daughter who might have traveled Pine Barrens Villages plying an herbal cure all The black and white illustrations by William Sauls Bock charmingly assemble the cast of characters to invoke further investigation and imagination for young readers.

happened and—according to some residents-still do. Some people of the Pines say that Blackbeard buried his treasure there years ago. and that the Jersey Devil, the region's horsefaced wing-flapping

monster, guards i scoff at this idea.

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Mrs. Homer's stories about them capture the flavor of the Barrens, and the spirit of its people. The book's illustrations, drawn by the nationally-known illustrator William Sauts Bock, are truly beautiful, and complement the book to perfection

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