Month: December 2017

Guest Artist Lucille Femine

Richard Rensberry, author at QuickTurtle Books® and booksmakebooms.com9 Comments

I am joined today by Children’s book author Lucille Femine.  She is the author and illustrator of LET ME SEE WHAT I COULD BE.

I am going to take the liberty to jump right in here with a few questions before I present an illustrated excerpt from the book.  My first question for Lucille is, what inspired you to write the book, LET ME SEE WHAT I COULD BE?

I used to make up stories for my children when they were going to sleep.  I wanted to call on that memory, but mostly I wanted to communicate something meaningful to children that would reach them on a deeper level, giving them the message that they really can be anything they want. Continue reading →

Monster Monster

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MONSTER MONSTER is a children’s picture book about the monster under the bed, the ogre snake that squishes toys and the troll that eats little boys. A fun poem for kids that delves into the monstrous imagination of a child, that place where the closet monster really does exist. This is book 6 in the Rhyme for Young Readers Series by QuickTurtle Books®.

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Big Ships

Richard Rensberry, author at QuickTurtle Books® and booksmakebooms.com2 Comments

Big Ships Cover

A book for the older young readers about ships of the Great Lakes.  I have taken on the task of illustrating this one myself.  The illustrations will be completed in the near future.

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Richard Rensberry, Author at QuickTurtle Books®

For the Love of Books

Richard Rensberry, author at QuickTurtle Books® and booksmakebooms.com2 Comments

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Our book signings at Amish Country Natural Products are always a delight. Not only do we sell many of our titles there but we get to meet with and make friends with so many good folks in our community. We are blessed to have this wonderful health food store in our rural neighborhood of Fairview, Michigan. Continue reading →

Night Shift

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Thanks for the good poetry Glenys.

lifecameos

With our company always on call
we were rostered on different shifts
though some did only night shifts.

Some of us died young,
under retiring age.
All those who died within
my ten years there had
only worked night shifts
for at least several years.

Doris had a brain tumour
Enid had stomach cancer
May had lung cancer
Alf had a massive heart attack.
Young Jack was medicated
for seizures. He went to
sleep one night for ever.

Relief workers came in
each time staff attended
yet another funeral.

We all knew those who passed away
had spent so long on night shifts
yet no one questioned it.

I do wonder
are our bodies
chewed up turning
day into night
night into day ?

For some do not survive night shift.

Originally posted 13 March 2016.

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