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978-0-9664316-1-2
0-9664316-1-8
$16.00 hardcover
5 1/2" x 7"
color photographs
Zuckerman Cannon Publisher
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[Gingher writes]
fiction sweet and to the point--no small accomplishment these days. --Kirkus
Reviews
Some writers, like
Gingher, are born to tell wonderfully old-fashioned stories that
celebrate such un-chic but very satisfying virtues as steadfastness,
caring, and the patient art of compromise. --Philadelphia Inquirer
Children are tireless in
their pursuit of happiness but where do they find it nowadays?
Prize-winning author Marianne Gingher delightfully reminds us that
modern children can still find happiness in the simplest and most
accessible of places: in a box of fresh, sharp crayons, a jar of
maraschino cherries glowing in the mellow light of the refrigerator, in
a good deed done or a gesture or forgiveness. As grown-ups, we
frequently look back on childhood as the most carefree and inventive
time of our lives, and, as parents, we strive to encourage that sense of
wonder and joy in our own children. In the prose and in the hand-tinted
photos of this book, Marianne exalts ordinary pleasures that stimulate a
child's curiosity and imagination. This charming, lyrically written book
is a meditation on the comforts of homeplace and family, a celebration
of the many chances a child has to be enlivened by his or her own
dawdling observations and nutured by values and traditions that bond
generations. The uplifting surprise of How to Have a Happy Childhood
is that ability to have one resides in each of us. Marianne Gingher's
wise, fresh, sunny insights will inspire audiences of every age.
about the author
Marianne Gingher is the author of the critically acclaimed Bobby
Rex's Greatest Hit (named to the American Library Association's
"Best Book" list and made into a NBC movie of the week), a
collection of short stories, Teen
Angel & Other Stories of Wayward Love, and A Girl's Life:
Horses, Boys, Weddings, & Luck, a book of personal narratives
about growing up Southern. Other work has appeared in Redbook,
Southern Review, Oxford American, Seventeen, and elsewhere.
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