Springvale Public Library Kids and Teens Bruce McMillan Corner

www.brucemcmillan.com

Bruce For Books!

Bruce McMillan has generously donated items
for the Springvale Public Library fundraiser, Brews For Books!
Bruce will be at the Brews f0r Books event and will
sign the winning bidder's copy personally.

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Jelly Beans for Sale by Bruce McMillan
1st edition, out-of-print 1996 Scholastic

Accompanied by 10 of the pennies used for the photographs,
(1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995)
Reserve bid $75.00

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Play day: a Book of Terse Verse by Bruce McMillan
1st edition out-of-print 1991 Holiday House

The toy doll chair photographed for the first terse verse "Bear Chair" accompanies the book
Reserve bid $75.00

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Nights of the Pufflings by Bruce McMillan
Málog men Icelandic English 1995 edition

Accompanied by a jar of volcanic ash collected by the author on
July 24, 2010 from the big eruption of Eyjafjallajökull which covered the glacier
seen in pages 3, 12, and 31 of the book, and which turned the glacier
from white to black.

Reserve Bid $75.00
Nights of the Pufflings

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Wild Flamingos by Bruce McMillan
1st edition, out-of-print 1997 Houghton-Mifflin Co.

A 6 pound sea salt crystal collected by the author while photographing the book
in 1996 in Bonaire on the salt flats where the wild flamingos nest
Reserve bid $75.00

The Springvale Library is delighted to host the Bruce McMillan Corner in the Children's Room of the library. Katahdin Award winning author and illustrator Bruce McMillan has been a library supporter for more than thirty years he has lived in Shapleigh, Maine. Springvale Library became his library, and he became our author from the time when he was a struggling writer until today, when he is an internationally known author of more than forty-five highly honored children's books. Bruce has generously donated nine of his original hand tinted photographs from Grandfather's Trolley to hang on permanent display in the Children's Room. Come in and visit, borrow one of Bruce's fine books and enjoy the trolley pictures.

Thank you Bruce!

Grandfather's Trolley

Grandfather's Trolley

Born in Massachusetts, Bruce McMillan was raised in Bangor and Kennebunk, Maine. He graduated from the University of Maine and worked as producer-director in public broadcasting and then as a caretaker of McGee Island off Port Clyde Maine. While island-living, he polished his writing skills. He has since combined writing and photography to create more than forty five children's books including Nights of the Pufflings, The Baby Zoo, Fire Engine Shapes, Wild Flamingos, My Horse of the North, and Salmon Summer. McMillan speaks at conferences and to school children throughout North America, and teaches a children's book class at the University of New Hampshire. He has written more children's books set in Iceland than any other U.S. author and, when he isn't in Iceland working on another book, he lives in a home he built himself in Shapleigh, Maine.

Bruce McMillan credits his father with his early interest in photography. His father gave him his first camera at the age of five and his first professional camera at the age of nine. McMillan learned photography by "doing." Even as a child, McMillan tried taking creative photos - "one of a burning candle from above!" In high school, he took photos for his school newspaper and yearbook. McMillan claims he takes many "bad" pictures, but the key to his success is shooting thousands of photos, if necessary, in order to get the few "perfect photographs" that he uses to illustrate his books. McMillan also takes great pride in designing his own books which often include playful borders like the colorful jelly beans in Jelly Beans For Sal. "Parts of me are in all my books," claims McMillan. Some of his books reflect his training in biology, some of his love of the sea, and all derive from his "Maine roots." In 2007, he was awarded the Katahdin Award in recognition of the lifetime achievement of an outstanding body of work of children's literature in Maine by one author or illustrator.

Information paraphrased from:
A Celebration of Maine's Children's Books
1998 by Lynn Plourde and Paul Knowles

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