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In Search of a Golden Sparrow
In Search of a Golden Sparrow is a heartwarming story about a little seven-year-old boy named, Jeremy. The time period is during the latter years of the Great Depression, somewhere in rural America.
Jeremy was born crippled and must struggle on crutches to walk. When he finds a newly hatched sparrow that has fallen from its nest and died, he feels sorry for it, but no one else seems to care.
After a rich kid makes fun of him and his father must leave home to find work, Jeremy begins to feel sorry for himself. He then begins to wonder why all the bad things have happened in his life. Jeremy later meets an old man and they become friends, which changes both of their lives.
The little boy’s faith causes him to ask God for what many believe is impossible. But his love for others soon changes many from Hermit Bill; the kid that made fun of him; to even his own grandmother.
The book has had some great reviews and has actually changed lives. This is an updated edition and it is over twice as long as the original that was first written in 1986.
Jeremy was born crippled and must struggle on crutches to walk. When he finds a newly hatched sparrow that has fallen from its nest and died, he feels sorry for it, but no one else seems to care.
After a rich kid makes fun of him and his father must leave home to find work, Jeremy begins to feel sorry for himself. He then begins to wonder why all the bad things have happened in his life. Jeremy later meets an old man and they become friends, which changes both of their lives.
The little boy’s faith causes him to ask God for what many believe is impossible. But his love for others soon changes many from Hermit Bill; the kid that made fun of him; to even his own grandmother.
The book has had some great reviews and has actually changed lives. This is an updated edition and it is over twice as long as the original that was first written in 1986.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 15, 2011
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About the author
Kenneth Edward Barnes
115 books13 followersKenneth Edward Barnes has been called, “A modern day Mark Twain” by a local newspaper reporter. “He shows a Twain sense of humor in conversation and in his writing. He writes in the ‘down to earth’ style that Twain used to capture the heart of America.”
He was born on April 4, 1951, along the banks of Little Pigeon Creek in the southern tip of Indiana, downstream from where Abraham Lincoln grew up. As a child, he loved fishing from the muddy banks of the creek and roaming in the nearby woods. He never missed an opportunity to be in the outdoors where he could see all of God’s creation.
Ken is a nationally published writer, poet and the author of over one hundred books. Some of his most popular ones are: The Mammoth Slayers series; Mysteries of the Bible; A Cabin in the Woods; The Arkansas River Monster series; Madam President; Life Along Little Pigeon Creek and The Golden Sparrow. This could soon change, however, as he has recently written several others.
The author became a member of Hoosier Outdoor Writers in 1993, where he has won several awards from them in their annual writing contest. He has also been a guest speaker for the Boy Scouts, Daughters of the American Revolution, Teachers Reading Counsel, Kiwanis Club, and at several schools, libraries and churches.
Poems of faith were the first things Ken wrote, and often he visited churches where he recited them. Nearly every time, many in the congregation were moved to tears by the words he wrote. Thinking he may have a talent for touching people’s hearts, he began writing more poems and books. He has studied the Bible since he was a young teenager. He seeks the truth and not what man says. He has been a church teacher, and a substitute schoolteacher. He strives to worship, as did the first Christians, before man changed so many things and added their own traditions.
Ken has been an outdoor columnist and contributing editor for several newspapers and magazines: Ohio Valley Sportsman, Kentucky Woods and Waters, Southern Indiana Outdoors, Fur-Fish-Game, Wild Outdoor World, Mid-West Outdoors, and a hard cover book called From the Field. He has written for the Boonville Standard, Perry County News, Newburgh Register and Chandler Post. He has had poems published locally and nationally. One called The Stranger went to missionaries around the world. The poem, Princess, was also published locally and nationally, and won honorable mention in a national contest. His best-loved poem is called Condemned, and has been published by the tens of thousands. Nearly every single poem he has written is in his books, Poems from the Heart and My Favorite Poems.
Ken has worked for an Evansville, Indiana, television station where he had outdoor news segments aired that he wrote, directed and edited. He also had film clips that were aired on the national television shows Real TV and Animal Planet. At this time, he has several short videos on YouTube and on GodTube.
Studying nature since childhood, he is a self-taught ornithologist and a conservationist. In 2009, he became founder and president of the Golden Sparrow Nature Society, the name of which was chosen because of his first published book. Ken loves to share his knowledge and love of nature, and it has been said that he is a walking encyclopedia on birds and animals.
He has followed his dream of being a writer and now lives in a cabin in the woods. Being an individualist, he cleared the land, dug a well by hand and built the house himself, which uses only solar electric.
Comments on the author’s work can be left on this site of course or on his Facebook page at: Kenneth Edward Barnes.
He was born on April 4, 1951, along the banks of Little Pigeon Creek in the southern tip of Indiana, downstream from where Abraham Lincoln grew up. As a child, he loved fishing from the muddy banks of the creek and roaming in the nearby woods. He never missed an opportunity to be in the outdoors where he could see all of God’s creation.
Ken is a nationally published writer, poet and the author of over one hundred books. Some of his most popular ones are: The Mammoth Slayers series; Mysteries of the Bible; A Cabin in the Woods; The Arkansas River Monster series; Madam President; Life Along Little Pigeon Creek and The Golden Sparrow. This could soon change, however, as he has recently written several others.
The author became a member of Hoosier Outdoor Writers in 1993, where he has won several awards from them in their annual writing contest. He has also been a guest speaker for the Boy Scouts, Daughters of the American Revolution, Teachers Reading Counsel, Kiwanis Club, and at several schools, libraries and churches.
Poems of faith were the first things Ken wrote, and often he visited churches where he recited them. Nearly every time, many in the congregation were moved to tears by the words he wrote. Thinking he may have a talent for touching people’s hearts, he began writing more poems and books. He has studied the Bible since he was a young teenager. He seeks the truth and not what man says. He has been a church teacher, and a substitute schoolteacher. He strives to worship, as did the first Christians, before man changed so many things and added their own traditions.
Ken has been an outdoor columnist and contributing editor for several newspapers and magazines: Ohio Valley Sportsman, Kentucky Woods and Waters, Southern Indiana Outdoors, Fur-Fish-Game, Wild Outdoor World, Mid-West Outdoors, and a hard cover book called From the Field. He has written for the Boonville Standard, Perry County News, Newburgh Register and Chandler Post. He has had poems published locally and nationally. One called The Stranger went to missionaries around the world. The poem, Princess, was also published locally and nationally, and won honorable mention in a national contest. His best-loved poem is called Condemned, and has been published by the tens of thousands. Nearly every single poem he has written is in his books, Poems from the Heart and My Favorite Poems.
Ken has worked for an Evansville, Indiana, television station where he had outdoor news segments aired that he wrote, directed and edited. He also had film clips that were aired on the national television shows Real TV and Animal Planet. At this time, he has several short videos on YouTube and on GodTube.
Studying nature since childhood, he is a self-taught ornithologist and a conservationist. In 2009, he became founder and president of the Golden Sparrow Nature Society, the name of which was chosen because of his first published book. Ken loves to share his knowledge and love of nature, and it has been said that he is a walking encyclopedia on birds and animals.
He has followed his dream of being a writer and now lives in a cabin in the woods. Being an individualist, he cleared the land, dug a well by hand and built the house himself, which uses only solar electric.
Comments on the author’s work can be left on this site of course or on his Facebook page at: Kenneth Edward Barnes.
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