W.T. Melon

Official blog of Douglas Evans, children's book author

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Author of numerous books for children, including The Elevator Family, MVP: Magellan Voyage Project, and the Classroom Creature Trilogy: Classroom at the End of the Hall, Math Rashes, and Mouth Moths.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

WT Melon Publishing

Check out the new WT Melon Publishing page and see what books, e-books, plays, and music are now available.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Now in paperback! The Elevator Family Takes a Hike


The tightly-knit Elevator Family--Walter, Winona, Winslow, and Whitney Wilson--hike up Mt. Baldy and stay in a small, cozy on top of a tall, steel tower.  What a view!  And what wonderful neighbors they find stayin gin the wilderness around them!

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Author Skype chats

It's been great have author Skype chats with classes in Georgia this week.   Check out the student comments!
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If any teacher or librarian wants to do an author Skype chat this fall, e-mail me.  No charge, and they are easy and fun to do.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Now in paperback! The Elevator Family Hits the Road

The rousing sequel to The Elevator Family.  This time the close-knit family--Walter, Winona, Winslow, and Whitney Wilson--stay in a toll booth on a bride crossing the Mississippi River.  Great accommodations!  So why are all the cars rushing past?  

Buy The Elevator Family Hits the Road  paperback

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Meet the Pixel Corps of Discovery



Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Pixels, Journey to the Bottom of the Desk trailer


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Saturday, August 11, 2012

The Pixels, Journey to the Bottom of the Desk


Global warming has wrecked havoc upon Upper Poyntz Colony.  The Pixel Corp of Discovery-- Speck, Dotty, Bitty, Nano, and Grandpa Grain Pixel--is sent out to find the source of the excess CO2 in the atmosphere.  Days later, the Pixel's plane crash lands in a strange world, on the desktop of fourth-grader Faith Singer.  Being one millimeter tall, the Pixel family must take a long, perilous journey to escape...through the inside of the desk and out the bottom.

Download The Pixels for Kindle

Friday, August 10, 2012

Bradley's Odyssey


The rousing sequel to Apple Island, or the Truth About Teachers now available as e-book.

Download Bradley's Odyssey  !

Thursday, August 09, 2012

The Substitute of Last Resort! E-book now available


Class out of control?  Will no regular substitute dare enter that classroom.  Then it's time to press the red button under the office clock to summon Miss Subway, the substitute of last resort.  This sub has the right gadget in her canvas page to put the fourth-graders back in order.

Download now in e-book form for Kindle, Nook or iTunes  Substitute of Last Resort

Sunday, August 05, 2012

MVP: Magellan Voyage Project

"Fast becoming a classroom classic."


"Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that 
circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started." - Ishmael--from Moby Dick.