My Bike Sucks

"Have you ever been absolutely, positively sure that you were getting a Sting Ray for Christmas Me too!" R. Ellis Orrall has created a "children's book for grownups" with this memory of Christmas 1963 of a little boy who does NOT get his dream bicycle. R. Ellis Orrall is a self-taught artist in Nashville, Tennessee. When he was a child, a well meaning but misguided art teacher told him repeatedly that he "would never be an artist", which led him to his self-proclaimed "fear of art", and he did not paint for 31 years. He paints stories drawn from his own bittersweet childhood memories, sometimes laid out in comic book style, often both painful and humorous. His paintings have now found themselves in the homes of kind folks everywhere from Boston, MA to Oslo, Norway to Zurich, Switzerland, and owned by famous recording artists and former Vice Presidents! In his spare time he writes songs and makes records