His previous published book was in 1988, entitled Semantico-Syntactic and Sociolinguistic Analysis of Factive Complements with Regard to Mood among Adult Mexican-American Speakers of Spanish , and he has written some articles. Ronald Kil, the illustrator, is a New Mexico cowboy and artist. He has illustrated four children’s books - Teddy’s Cattle Drive (2005), Friday the Arapaho Boy (2004), Jose’s Buffalo Hunt (2003) and Millie Cooper’s Ride (2002).