Books published by Mr Nick Productions, LLC

slightly salty bedtime nature tales and stories

This book is about a zestful and slightly salty adventure starring Baby Spider and her friends. Some of her pals are prickly, others are pudgy and slimy, but all are lovable.The imaginary story is based on common, small, creepy-crawly animals found all around us.Enjoy, we are all in this together.

Those two years in junior high weren't wasted, were they? They were the best two years of my life, right? It's hard to say; it could have gone either way.This book is a slightly fictionalized account of my life in junior high school, the "lost" years, inspired by actual events. Embellishments of strange happenings were unnecessary because human foibles ran rampant. However, most names and places have been altered so as not to embarrass the guilty, inept and downright scurvy. The stories are retold in a series of vignettes which best captured my mood at the time. Troubling, boring, exasperating and anxiety-ridden; I believe those adjectives accurately summed up my junior high experience. For me, seventh and eighth grades in a rural village school system were difficult to negotiate and get a firm grip on. I had prospered in elementary school, with high school looming on the horizon. But those two intervening grades flummoxed and aggravated me. I managed to stumble and muddle through them and just barely escaped, mostly sane I think. Anyway, I couldn't help but write down some of my humorous misadventures that unwittingly occurred along the way. Hopefully you will laugh along with me. Maybe at me as well!

This book is about a slightly fictionalized account of my life in elementary school, inspired by actual events. Embellishments of strange happenings were unnecessary because human foibles ran rampant. The stories are retold in a series of vignettes which best captured my mood at the time.