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Lt. Col. Jack Crandall, 69, said the story originated when he was taking an online creative writing class. "What happened is we got a homework assignment to find a newspaper article and write a story about it," he said. Looking for inspiration, Crandall found it in a March 30, 2004, article by Nancy Kimball in the Daily Inter Lake.
It detailed how a Kalispell teacher had found a live frog in a bag of spinach. The teacher, Laurie Kollmann, noticed "a dark blob" in her hand as she pulled out some spinach to make a salad for lunch. After recovering from the shock, she decided to take the frog to her students at St. Matthew's School for a classroom pet. Kollmann's third grade students named their frog Popeye, based on the cartoon character's affinity for spinach.
Until he read about Popeye, Crandall hadn't considered writing a children's book for the assignment. But the story. captured his imagination and launched "Popeye: The Little Tree Frog's BIG Adventure." Crandall said he got started by trying to capture how the ordeal unfolded from the frog's perspective. "I just kind of thought like a kid," he said. As a father and grandfather, Health care We live in the age of information.
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Crandall designed the book to serve as both entertainment and a learning experience for children. He included scientific information about: Pacific treefrogs at the end of the story. wrote He also provides a about a page for children to Frog in a use their own imaginations to write about Popeye's next adventure. Crandall has a few more Popeye books of his own in mind if his first sells well. "The book lends itself to sequels," he said.
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Crandall said he also has always loved to read, particularly mystery writers Nelson DeMille and Jonathan Kellerman. He thought he would end up writing an type of book. "Instead I ended up as a poor man's Dr. Seuss," he said with a laugh. Crandall said he wrote the first draft quickly.
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Crandall found that youngsters have no problem imaging a frog that talks. But he said a lot of people have trouble imagining him as a children's author. A West Point graduate, Crandall spent 21 years in the military. Although he retired in 1979, he has continued on as a government contractor, providing leadership training exercises for the Army. Although several years past 65, he has no intention of slowing down.
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