The author has more than twenty years' experinece writing advertising, public relations, corporate speeches and other communications features for national coporations. Terry has recently rediscoverd his passion for writing fir children and the very young at heart. As a child growing up in small towns and farms across Missouri, the author now draws on his "Tom Sawyer-like" childhood and expresses them through wonderful poems with his whimsical imagination and mischievous characters.