A montage of covers for the 3 volumes in the “Scoops” series of books by Alex Carrick:

Heart-warming, insightful and often ingenious, each of the books in this outstanding series contains a full array of stories that are designed to delight.

Mr. Carrick is a two-time Honorable Mention winner in the prestigious Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. His “Caboose Follies”, included in “Four Scoops”, was short-listed for the Award in 2011.