Early Love and Brook Trout: With Watercolor Paintings by the Author

Don't think twice..buy anything authored by Prosek. He is an amazing writer now. As he ages his writer's (and painter's) eye will absorb more. If we are lucky, we will look at his observations and see if we can learn his methods. This is the examined life and it is worth every minute of the very fast read.

I have been a public school teacher since 1982, and I have taught in five different school systems.Over the summer I read James Prosek's latest book on: Early Love and Trout. I found myself re-reading certain lines and smiling. I thought it was wonderful to find a book for Middle School and High School students that they can identify with at their present stage in life. The emotions and feelings James writes of, are theirs at this moment - the value of friendship, the excitement of new love and the pain caused by divorce. I think is particularly poignant how James describes how he dealt with that pain. Instead of anger, drugs and alcohol, James put all of his energy into nature. Finding new fishing places, and re-gaining his innocence, rather than becoming an angry and bitter individual. Throughout the book, James's art compliments the stories like beautiful lyrics to a haunting melody.I truly recommend this book as a gift or as an excellent choice as requirement reading for High School or Middle School Students.

Prosek has written another beautiful book about the joy of trout and fishing, and so much more. His writing, the love for his subject, and his ability to communicate that are a balm and soothing antidote to the crazy hectic lives most of us live. Can't wait for the next book out - fishing the 41st parallel.

It's been said that no one below forty should write an autobiography. In "Early Love and Brook Trout" James Prosek has surely been the exception to the rule. As the title suggests, this book has skilfully joined accounts of his young life and early love with his other love - fishing, and more specifically fishing for that small aristrocrat , the brook Trout. Still in his early twenties, Prosek is now the successful author/illustrator of four books, all of which speak not just to the sportsman, but to the reading public at large for their account of a highly talented and deeply appealing young man. His travels and adventures seeking trout habitats around the world have brought him ever-growing maturity as both writer and artist. His style is deceptively simple - a voice for the young experiencing the delights and sometimes pain of relating to the opposite sex, for those older in whom it will conjure poignant memories of their own youth, for the naturalist and the fisherman to whom the outdoors is sacred As in his earlier books the illustrations are magically full of vigor, and in conjunction with the text make this a book to own and treasure.