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Blueberry Shoe
By Ann Dixon and Evon Zerbetz '82
From the foreword: Blueberry Shoe will lend itself well to story hours. Preschoolers will delight in the bold illustrations, playful sense of adventure and satisfying conclusion. An energetic and engaging story.
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Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip
By Ray Troll '81 and Kirk Johnson
Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway follows the zany travels of a paleontologist and an artist as they drive across the American West in search of fossils. Throughout their journey, they encounter "paleonerds" like themselves, men and women dedicated to finding everything from suburban T. rexes to killer Eocene pigs to ancient fossilized forests. Much of their travels are spent in remote places few people visit, where they discover small-town museums packed with paleontological treasures, rock quarries that have yielded hundreds of fossilized bones, and the remains of ancient seashores tracked with the footprints of dinosaurs. What soon becomes evident is that fossils are everywhere; it only takes knowing what to look for to find them—even at 65 miles per hour.
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Life's a Fish and Then You Fry
By Randy Bayliss and Ray Troll '81
Life's a Fish and Then You Fry takes a romp through the culinary curiosities of coastal Alaska like no other cookbook has before. Seasoned galley cook Randy Bayliss divulges the secrets of poaching, grilling, smoking, and flambéing, and explains how to prepare indigenous Alaskan specialties including oysters, salmon, and salads from the sea, along with more daring fare. With snappy cooking tips from Bayliss, and the weird and wonderful art of Ray Troll, this is not your mother's cookbook.
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Little Red Snapperhood
By Neal Gilbertsen and Evon Zerbetz '82
From the publisher: This comical twist on the classic tale is set under the sea with an amiable turn from the traditional ending. Illustrated with richly colored linocuts, Little Red Snapperhood will delight adults and children alike.
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Lucky Hares and Itchy Bears
By Susan Ewing and Evon Zerbetz '82
From Publishers Weekly: "This humourous rhyming revue features 15 animals from the North. Accompanied by exuberant hand colored linocuts, doggerel verse sings the eccentricities of each critter...Zerbetz's eye-grabbing illustrations raise the energy level with their dynamic lines and vibrant composition."
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Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea and Dancing to the Fossil Record
By Bradford Matsen and Ray Troll '81
An irreverent trip through four billion years of evolution, this freewheeling excursion combines swaths of paleontology, geology and natural history, travel notes and amateur fieldwork from Kansas to British Columbia, amplified by wacky cartoons and colorful, often fantastical mixed-media drawings. Matsen and Troll, who collaborated on Shocking Fish Tales, emphasize that we are descended from fish that came ashore some 375 million years ago, giving rise to land-dwelling vertebrates. Evolution emerges here as a series of mass extinctions, improbable survivals, false starts and unsolved enigmas. Matsen and Troll bring a sense of awe and excitement to an informative, magical tour that is a lot more fun to read than standard texts and responsibly covers current scientific controversies.
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Rapture of the Deep: The Art of Ray Troll
By Ray Troll '81
For more than two decades, Ray Troll has been luring, hooking, and landing fans around the world with his zany, irreverent, and often surreal art. Featured in museums, galleries, and books, as well as on immensely popular T-shirts, his work—part natural history adventure and part underground comic—depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish of all kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections of extinct animals, and much more.
Rapture of the Deep collects some of Troll's best-known art along with many images never before published. The book makes powerful connections between biological diversity, the evolution of life on earth, and the careless habits of people. Troll's running commentary reveals the thought and inspiration behind his art. Writer Brad Matsen, Troll's longtime coconspirator, adds a lively introduction to the art and life of his "sole" brother.
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Ray Troll's Shocking Fish Tales: Fish, Romance, and Death in Pictures
By Ray Troll '81
First published in 1991 by Alaska Northwest, this book introduced a new audience to the often edgy, always observant and colorful fish art made semi-famous by the T-shirts and cards hauled out of the Northwest by fans of this Ketchikan artist. The mysteries of the deep, the strange, the hideous and the wonderful all appear on the canvas and in the words of this highly original, wacky work. Full-color throughout.
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Sharkabet
By Ray Troll '81
From the publisher: Sharkabet: A Sea of Sharks from A to Z is a thrilling, chilling book for children of all ages. Featuring Ray Troll's spectacular fishy art, this book portrays sharks both living and extinct, swimming throughout the pages. Troll's colorful, eye-popping images draw readers in, while catchy, fun factoids are offered for the different fascinating shark varieties. In back is an info-packed field guide featuring everything you didn't know about these weird and wonderful creatures.
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Ten Rowdy Ravens
By Susan Ewing and Evon Zerbetz '82
From the publisher: This fun "countdown from 10" book features the rowdy and mischievous shenanigans of the popular raven. They steal pretty pearls, picnic in a pickup truck, and perform dizzy loop-de-loops. Scenarios are fanciful but rooted in ravenhood: collecting shiny things, testing curious objects, getting into the garbage, and showing off.
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Whale Mail
By Ron Hirschi and Evon Zerbetz '82
Whalemail follows the group of humpback whales that travel between Alaska and Hawaii. A research crew follows the whales’ path sending news of their fictional journey on picture postcards. The postcards pull out of whale tail envelopes. The pages of the book follow the whales in nonfiction text. It’s a fun blend of fact, fiction and fishin’ in full color!
