GREENSBORO, N.C., Feb. 14, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Just cause you don't speak English good, don't mean you're not smart. That is the philosophy of young Benjamin Franklin "Frankie" Riddle and his friend Jamie. In Me and Jamie (now available through 1stBooks Library) by Raymond F. Rogers, two schoolboys in rural North Carolina in the early 1930s revolt against the proper grammar and English they are being forced to speak.
Frankie is a precocious schoolboy who is given a dictionary at a very early age by his parents. Despite an ever-expanding vocabulary, Frankie and his best friend Jamie refuse to speak with proper English. Wanting to remain "men" and not speak like "girls," they rebel against their education to the dismay of the town until a young teacher persuades them differently.
Chocked full of history and products that colored the depression era south, Me and Jamie is a frolicking lesson in grammar and the doors it opens in the world.
Rogers was born in Greensboro, N.C. in 1923. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II. He later joined the post office and retired in 1979 as postal supervisor. He began writing after the death of his father in 1985. He has since given many public readings including an honor to read at the Fields of Earth Symposia while winning the Max Vestal Memorial award three times. He has published one other book about his childhood, My Children's Eden (Noble House), as well as published poems in Walking in Another's Shoes (Cader Publishing) and a tribute to his wife, Lillian, Happy Ever After (Goose River Press).
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