August 24, 2018
New Release! The Tightrope Dare
Today I’m really excited to announce the release of “The Tightrope Dare,” the second adventure in The Landmark Tribe (furry squirrels lighting the way)! The illustrators have finally finished with this project!
Rebeccah did this illustration. She drew and colored both the cute little squawler and the full background!
Kimberly accented the drawing for digital copy and enhanced the details on the computer (some digital art manipulation).
Each of the Landmark Tribe books is narrated by a different member of the Tribe. This adventure is narrated by Nutty, a crunchie (the squirrel’s word for teenager) who may be just a bit over-confident (okay, maybe he likes to brag and exaggerate, as you can see from the excerpt below).
Our Landmark Tribe books are written for our church. Any sales we get go straight back to church because it is our squirrely church family who inspires characters in the Landmark Tribe and this series was created during a trip to church! (Read that story here!)
Come read a bit from “The Tightrope Dare” here:
This is the story of how, me, Nutty, greatest Crunchie in the Landmark Tribe and in all of the squirrel tribes in the Wooded Lands, saved the day with my big brawny arms!
“Nutty.”
And that is Walnut, whose favorite thing to do is do that deep sigh and say Nutty, like I’m really doing something wrong. He is a Crunchie in the Landmark Tribe too, but he is ages older than me. Walnut is almost as old as Kahoona, our great and powerful leader.
“Nutty.” Sighed Walnut again.
Okay, so he isn’t really that old, but almost.
On the day my story takes place, the winds were ripping squirrels from their nests and squawlers from their mother’s clutching paws.
“Nutty, seriously?” Walnut chided.
Okay, okay, so maybe the winds were just enough to make leaves dance, Walnut is only a season older than me, and maybe I am not the greatest Crunchie in all of the squirrel tribes and maybe I didn’t use my big brawny arms to save the day, but I’m telling the story and that sounds cool, doesn’t it?
And that sigh from Walnut means he agrees but doesn’t want to say I’m right about anything. Ever. And he certainly doesn’t want to admit that I, Nutty the Great, am cool. But I so am.
“Why do you start every sentence with a conjunction?” Walnut said in a bookish voice.
Honestly, he sounds so much like Grizzly, a new member of the Landmark tribe, that he seems like his real son. Grizzly talks with a gruff bear voice but through his nose like it is constantly pinched shut. And now Walnut has walked away so he can’t hear my awesome story. Okay, well, you will have to do. Stay right there and don’t move.
If you liked that and want to see how the Landmark Tribe of furry squirrels light the way in the Wooded Lands, click on the link to buy a copy or check out my Book List to view all the available formats!
Thanks for reading!
Type at you later…
~Nancy Tart
