Great African-Americans Coloring Book by Taylor Oughton

This, along with a failed marriage brought about acute clinical depression, a failed suicide attempt, a miraculous second chance, and ultimately redemption and success to become a nationally recognized, award-winning artist.

She must work to help support her two boys, all the while continuing to repress her natural creative gift and desire to become an artist. Oughton has also authored or co-authored books such as, Loon at Northwood Lake Mallard Duck at Meadow View Pond and coloring books-Great African-American. Great African Americans Coloring Book by Taylor Oughton Paperback 4. Unable to afford college, Bertie marries and moves to Colorado. She tells her story through the innocent eyes of her childhood while being raised by neglectful alcoholic parents. The lives and achievements of notable African Americans spring to life in this carefully researched and finely rendered coloring.

Bertie spent most of her life playing the role of family caregiver to her two younger sisters and peacemaker to her sometimes hell-raising parents. Great African-Americans Coloring Book by Taylor Oughton ISBN 9780613871044 (978-4-4) Hardcover, Tandem Library, 1996 Find This Book Find signed collectible books: 'Great African-Americans Coloring Book' Snowfoot: White Reindeer of the Arctic (Famous Animal Stories) by Justin F.

The children make the best of their tumultuous existence by creating games and diversions that Bertie describes with humor and heart. She chronicles her journey and a miraculous second chance which enabled her to become a nationally recognized, award-winning artist.īook Synopsis Bertie Stroup Marah, along with her four siblings, spent her childhood in abject poverty moving from sawmill shacks, tents, trailers and even an abandoned railroad car in the isolated desert and mountainous hard scrabble areas of New Mexico. About the Book The author and her four siblings spent their childhood in abject poverty moving from sawmill shacks, tents, trailers, and even an abandoned railroad car in the isolated desert and mountainous hard scrabble areas of New Mexico.