The Bright Side

Readers will enjoy this book because of realistic approaches to every day experiences.  Bessie Frazier offers optimistic solutions to daily problems.  Life is complex for young readers who have to deal with peer pressure and growing up in our world today.  This book is a reminder that things may not be as bad as they seem, and that there are always alternatives.  Sometimes when conflicts are going on in the reader’s life he/she may not remember to think about all the good things or what’s going right.  These are some of the themes in Look on the Bright Side- “Optimism, Hope, Never Give Up, Count Your Blessings, Escape to a Fun Place, Time Makes things better, Be Thankful, Smiling Feels Good, Critical Thinking, Test Your Imagination and Alternatives, Just to name a few.

This book is designed to have you – the reader to “Look on the Bright Side and find a positive answer.  Her messages are realistic and clear.  This is a book of poems that readers can walk in the shoes of the characters or perhaps you are the character in the poem.

In our world of problems, challenges and sometimes confusion.  Ms. Frazier offers many meaningful solutions.

Bessie Frazier was born in Brooklyn, New York.  She attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and majored in English and Sociology.  While at Fisk, she became a member of the Fisk Writer’s Workshop, under John Oliver Kellens.

A year after graduating from Fisk, she received a M.A. degree from Montclair State College in New Jersey.  She completed post graduate work at Brooklyn College and New York University.  She is the author of poems, stories, plays and raps, and has performed for schools, colleges, churches and special interest groups receiving standing ovations.  Her work has appeared  in anthologies, magazines and the Amsterdam News.  She has been featured in who’s Who in the East and received countless letters of praise from electrified readers.