Shades of Childhood
Children's Stories for Grownups
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About the Book
In looking back over my childhood years from the vantage point of advanced adulthood, I realize now, in an age when "dysfunction" seems to be the buzzword, that if there was anything unique about the Gossler family, it was its normalcy. Dad went to work every day and came home to his family every evening. Mom stayed home every day (one job, one-car families were the norm) cooked, cleaned, and ministered to the affairs of her daughters. The biggest household issue revolved around eating our vegetables and whose turn it was to do the dishes. Raising their children in an era before "experts" and the "Information Age," my parents' world and perspectives were limited to their own experiences and instincts. They didn't have all of the answers (nor were there so many questions back then in the forties and fifties), but Mom and Dad were hard working, straight-shooting, clean-living people. They were devoted to each other and dedicated to the care and nurture of their five daughters of whom I am the oldest. Each story in this book was triggered by some current event or situation that brought back memories of this relatively short, but overwhelmingly important era of my lifespan. While many of these stories are based on my own childhood memories, one reaches back into my father's childhood, one is a souped-up tale drawn from my son's childhood, and one is a current event from reading to my grandchildren. They are all true (to some degree more or less). Shades of Childhood - Children's Stories for Grownups
About the Author
Wife of one, mother of four, and grandmother of nine; she is a schoolteacher and writer. June Anderson’s passions include theater, music, and her family. Mrs. Anderson holds degrees in Education, English, and Library Science from the University of Minnesota and the College of St. Catherine. Her part-time employment as a substitute teacher allows her to write monthly features for the Arts page of the local newspaper, serve as vice president and membership chairman for the county arts alliance, and write the publicity for the local community theater. Shades of Childhood - Children's Stories for Grownups is one of two books she is publishing simultaneously. The other is a Civil War history co-authored with her great-grandfather.