Description
It’s Raining Cats and Dogs!
How do you entertain a child who has spent a lot of time in hospitals?
You come up with some marvelous stories! And author Maria K. certainly has done that.
In
"Stories for Anastasia", Maria, who comes from a long line of
storytellers, provides a charming collection of essays written to
entertain her young niece, who needed activities to keep the child busy
while she recuperated.
The essays are nonfiction and are written
in a humorous style. They illustrate that you can find fun and
excitement in everyday events.
Welcome to Maria’s household,
where the occupants include some book-crazy, martial arts-trained
technology geeks, some homeless animals, and a very old house just
begging for attention.
Maria says, “Anastasia was born with a
serious digestive system condition and spent the first five years of her
life in and out of hospitals. What would be an ordeal in the United
States, was even more so in Ukraine. Anastasia's mom wrote to me asking
to send them something to read to her, to keep the mind off all the
surgeries and medications. So I started writing these stories and
sending them one at a time with each letter.” From those marvelous
letters, Stories for Anastasia was born.
