About the Authors
The TINY BIRD SONG Illustrator
CHERIE NOWLIN MCBRIDE (AKA
Duckie) grew up in a small town on the
industrial Texas Gulf Coast. Her
mother would have preferred that she
become a teacher, but she managed
to “get away to art school.”
Art school paid off and soon! She went
on to help produce the original
Houston Astrodome scoreboard
animations and then became a .
filmmaker in Alaska. Later, she re
turned to her hometown to join the
family business.
Life refocused to intensive art when
Cherie and Glenn McBride married in
1985. Both feeling cloistered with
business careers, they plunged into
night school pottery classes. The open-
ended creative feeling of molding fresh
clay and firing pots changed their lives
forever.
In 2000, Cherie began painting and
showing nature art at festivals. By
2004, the “creative couple” had
decided to develop a series of “tiny
bird songs” - illustrated nature poetry
for posters, calendars, books and
planners. The purpose would be to
heighten awareness and feelings for
art, wild birds and nature around the
globe.
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The TINY BIRD SONG Poet
GLENN NELSON MCBRIDE (AKA the
Grackle) grew up as the only son of a
blacksmith in the small town of
Bluegrove, Texas. Not caring for
“basketball high school,” he joined the
USMC at age 17. While overseas, he
became intrigued by stories about the
determination and success of Pablo
Picasso and vowed to enter college
one day to learn more of art and
literature. Then after 4 years service,
this U.S. Marine (now in the reserves)
found himself sitting in class at
Midwestern University and suffering
serious nosebleeds while listening to
the overwhelming lines of Keats,
Shelly, Dickinson and other great
poets.
At age 39, Glenn finally received a
degree at the University of Houston/
CLC, continuing on to complete
graduate studies in behavioral
sciences. In his fifties, he became a
founding member of the Brazosport,
Texas Poets Society. Now in his sixties
and realizing the mindless destruction
of our natural environment, “the
Grackle,” along with his wife “Duckie,”
has focused on “awesome nature” and
the outdoors - through their Tiny Bird
Songs.
The TINY BIRD SONG Illustrator
CHERIE NOWLIN MCBRIDE (AKA
Duckie) grew up in a small town on the
industrial Texas Gulf Coast. Her
mother would have preferred that she
become a teacher, but she managed
to “get away to art school.”
Art school paid off and soon! She went
on to help produce the original
Houston Astrodome scoreboard
animations and then became a .
filmmaker in Alaska. Later, she re
turned to her hometown to join the
family business.
Life refocused to intensive art when
Cherie and Glenn McBride married in
1985. Both feeling cloistered with
business careers, they plunged into
night school pottery classes. The open-
ended creative feeling of molding fresh
clay and firing pots changed their lives
forever.
In 2000, Cherie began painting and
showing nature art at festivals. By
2004, the “creative couple” had
decided to develop a series of “tiny
bird songs” - illustrated nature poetry
for posters, calendars, books and
planners. The purpose would be to
heighten awareness and feelings for
art, wild birds and nature around the
globe.
========================
The TINY BIRD SONG Poet
GLENN NELSON MCBRIDE (AKA the
Grackle) grew up as the only son of a
blacksmith in the small town of
Bluegrove, Texas. Not caring for
“basketball high school,” he joined the
USMC at age 17. While overseas, he
became intrigued by stories about the
determination and success of Pablo
Picasso and vowed to enter college
one day to learn more of art and
literature. Then after 4 years service,
this U.S. Marine (now in the reserves)
found himself sitting in class at
Midwestern University and suffering
serious nosebleeds while listening to
the overwhelming lines of Keats,
Shelly, Dickinson and other great
poets.
At age 39, Glenn finally received a
degree at the University of Houston/
CLC, continuing on to complete
graduate studies in behavioral
sciences. In his fifties, he became a
founding member of the Brazosport,
Texas Poets Society. Now in his sixties
and realizing the mindless destruction
of our natural environment, “the
Grackle,” along with his wife “Duckie,”
has focused on “awesome nature” and
the outdoors - through their Tiny Bird
Songs.
Click here to order
Tiny Bird Songs - the
book, heron cover
Tiny Bird Songs - the
book, heron cover
Click here to order Tiny Bird
Songs - the book, birdies cover
Songs - the book, birdies cover
| Two Covers! Two covers are currently available. The “Night Herons” cover has more of a gallery - coffee table -art look. The “Three Birdies” cover is for more of a family and gift look. These often-two extremes of their readers are part of the fun and challenge for the authors. |
Click here to order Tiny Bird
Songs - the book, heron cover
Songs - the book, heron cover
Click here to
order Tiny Bird
Songs - the book,
birdies cover
order Tiny Bird
Songs - the book,
birdies cover
| TINY BIRD SONGS - the book ... |
Just look at our calendars!! ...
Tiny Bird Songs - what the birds have to say - the book
by Glenn Nelson McBride & Cherie Nowlin McBride (AKA
Duckie and the Grackle)
by Glenn Nelson McBride & Cherie Nowlin McBride (AKA
Duckie and the Grackle)
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