Joshua Disobeys
At six years of age, Dennis Vollmer wrote and illustrated the book, JOSHUA DISOBEYS, and won the 1987 NATIONAL WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY...AWARDS CONTEST FOR STUDENTS in the 6 to 9 age category.Dennis lives in Grove, Oklahoma, but previously resided in Norfolk, Virginia where he used to sit on the beach and look for whales."I never saw any," Dennis says, "So I decided to write a book about them."