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Known for her fiction—Bobby Rex’s Greatest Hits and Teen Angels & Other Stories of Wayward Love—Gingher, director of the creative writing program, takes a departure from writing about “made-up” people to celebrate the joys of childhood in this poetically written book. She says the book was originally one of several essays she’s written about growing up in the South, but that it was so different in structure from the other essays, that her publisher thought it could stand on its own. “This book is for those people who still feel the spirit of childhood,” Gingher says. “It is not meant to be a picture book for children.” She points out that unlike other inspirational gift books, hers is more linguistically complex. It’s neither narrative nor fiction but has a lyrical quality throughout. It’s also full of mindful advice:
Gingher hopes the book will prompt readers to share what they remember from their childhoods with children and grandchildren. She says, “It’s an anti-Nintendo, anti-TV and computer games sort of book. It’s about communication between the generations, stopping to smell the roses, delighting in the poky and sensory world, and making mountains out of molehills.”
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you come to a grassy hill, do you feel an urge to roll down it or, at
least, take off your shoes and feel the cool, soft grass beneath your
feet? If so, then you’ll appreciate Marianne Gingher’s latest book.
mall
in size, the book is packed with all sorts of pictures—hand-tinted photographs,
childrens’ artwork, and line drawings. Gingher says that the designers
at Kachergis Book Design got so excited thinking about their own childhood
memories that they included pictures from their personal family albums.
