About the Author:

The pseudonym and web site names have no real significance other than I like them. My given name is Billy Duane Page. I have gone by Bill D. or B. D. most of my life. In my youth I was known as William until I had to get a birth certificate for the WW II draft and found that what I thought was my given name was not. Surprise!

I have been a teacher at all levels of public education from elementary through graduate school in Manson and Marion, Iowa, Lincoln Park, Michigan and adjunct professor for Western Michigan University. I was an elementary and special education school principal in Rockford, IL; assistant superintendent to the Illinois State Superintendent of Education, in Springfield; superintendent of schools in Whitehall, MI; and Muskegon Community College dean of students. In addition to my education career, I am a WW II veteran and have been a Boy and Cub Scout Master, a trapper, carpenter, cabinet maker, sheet metal worker, draftsman, railroad section hand, and highway worker. Those varied experiences have given me a unique insight into human behavior.

Because of that insight, I have developed empathy for people from all walks of life. Working with people across the entire span of our social matrix has let me see the yin and the yang of it, the good and the bad. Prejudice more often shows its ugly head as a downward phenomenon. Those who ‘have’ are more inclined to look upon those who ‘have not’ with less favor. That is part of the reason I write for children. I have devoted my life to the improvement of life for all children, especially the disadvantaged It is my guiding principal.

My wife of sixty–two years and I live in Muskegon, Michigan. We have three children, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Our childhood home was Marion, Iowa.

Boy Scouts, Bullies and Indian Creek: It Happened in Marion

$15.00

Model: 978-1441591234

Boy Scouts, Bullies and Indian Creek: It Happened in Marion

 This wholesome and intriguing tale is written for children aged nine to twelve. Close friends, Patrick Oxley and Darius Foitle, the only African American boy in town, and Patrick’s brother, Bobby are confronted with problems created by bullies, drug dealers and racism. A compassion for animals that results from hunting and trapping adventures develops new life values. A teacher encourages them and the girls in their lives to take on a project that improves the environment. In school, the kids learn that pollution has deteriorated their environment, so they devise a way to mobilize the youth into doing something about it.

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