Category: Children’s Books

  • Sunday School Weekends

    GROWING UP IN THE 1950s, my older sister, Una, and I were among the few neighborhood children whose mother worked.  Mother was a third-grade teacher. She ran our home like a big kids’ classroom, enforcing rules and doling out chores.  By the weekend, she was tired of dealing with children, including her own. To give…

  • A Summer Book for Young Readers

    After two years promoting my adult novel, Immigrant Soldier, I decided go back to my roots – children’s literature. As a result of the publication of the novel, I now have my very own publishing company. Why not publish a children’s book? Last February, I pulled out one of my favorite children’s manuscripts – a work where…