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Kirby Pringle

Born: 1957 in Evansville, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Pringle attended Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. He and his wife, Cindy, are the authors and co-owners of Dogtown Artworks in Tuscola.

Biography: Kirby Pringle is a longtime feature writer at The News-Gazette in Champaign. He and his wife Cindy Pringle have worked together as authors and photographers for over 20 years and own Dogtown Artworks. Their children's books are about loveable dogs who have a message to tell and who love to wear clothes!

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children

E-Mail: dogtownartworks@mac.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirbypringle/
Web: http://www.dogtownartworks.com

Selected Titles

  The butterfly that would not fly :
ISBN: 0977712699 OCLC: 800123634

Dogtown Artworks, [Champaign, Ill.?] : ©2012.

Pearl Barker and her husband Earl find a monarch butterfly who is afraid of heights. Together, they help the butterfly overcome its fear so it can migrate with the other butterflies.

 

 

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