The World’s Only Plantasaurus Blooms in a Children’s Book

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“Clarence Blooms in Winter” Shows Children That Being Different Can Be Wonderful

Norcross, GA, July 14, 2009 — With whimsical illustrations bursting with color, and witty, yet lyrical, prose, “Clarence Blooms in Winter” (published by AuthorHouse), the new children’s book written by Adrienne Anbinder and illustrated by Marian Pickman, is a 40-page storybook that tells the tale of Clarence, the world’s only plantasaurus, and his struggle to feel accepted by all the other animals in the forest despite the fact that he looks nothing like any of them.

His entire body covered with plants and flowers, Clarence changes with the seasons. All the other creatures stare and point at him in wonder, but he thinks they act this way because his nose is bigger than all the other noses he has ever seen. Feeling dejected and lonely, he doesn’t realize how much beauty he brings into the world. He is unable to see past the nose on his face. We follow Clarence from season to season, but it is in the barren winter that Clarence finally “blooms.”

“Clarence Blooms in Winter” is perfect reading for classrooms and bedtimes, for children ages 3 to 93. In Clarence, Anbinder and Pickman have created a fanciful character that is surely destined to have a long series of adventures in many other wonderful books to come.

Author Adrienne Anbinder owned a greeting card company in the early ’80s when she began working with artist Marian Pickman. Currently the owner of an ad agency in Atlanta, Adrienne Anbinder has written and served as the art director for hundreds of ads over the course of her 20 years in advertising. She has also raised two wonderful daughters and has two precocious grandsons. “It’s not easy to be different when you’re a child,” writes Ms. Anbinder, “and yet every child is different. Those differences should be appreciated, but they often make children feel inferior and, ultimately, lonely. I wanted to write a book to help children delight in their uniqueness and in the uniqueness of others.”

Illustrator Marian Pickman, mother of two adult daughters and grandmother of seven, has been a freelance graphic designer for more than 25 years. She has designed children’s toys, children’s furnishings and greeting cards for companies such as Russ Berrie, Inc. “When Adrienne and I began discussing the idea for a plantasaurus,” Ms. Pickman remembers, “I wondered, ‘What on earth would a plantasaurus look like?’ We decided that he had to look totally adorable and huggable, changing his gorgeous colors with the seasons. But we also wanted him to look unique and somewhat peculiar. You’ve never seen a character quite like Clarence.”

AuthorHouse is the premier book publisher for emerging, self-published authors. For more information, please visit http://www.authorhouse.com.

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