Short Stories, Childhood Anecdotes and Simple Poems for Everyone

About the Book

Short Stories, Childhood Anecdotes and Simple Poems for Everyone contains four stories. In one, a little girl is traumatized by two auto accidents that claimed the lives of all her relatives. At the Los Niños Receiving Home, she attends school, and she is bullied. She becomes rebellious at school and at her foster homes, so she is returned to Los Niños. Finally, a school friend invites her to live with her family and her existence becomes more pleasant. She eventually graduates from college with a teaching credential and soon marries her prince charming. Another story deals with a hate-love feud between classmates that ends up in matrimony. In the next two stories, children and adults are taught that heeding advice can help avoid unpleasant consequences. Finally, the anecdotes and the poems listed are mainly personal experiences expressed in prose or in simple rhyme for everyone to fully understand and enjoy.

About the Author

He was born in Mexico, came to the U. S. in l945 illegally, became legal in 1955, was drafted after one year of college, served almost two years with the Army’s Special Troops in Germany, was released from the army and rerturned to Imperial Valley College, went on to San Diego State University, graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies and a Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education, taught elementary school grades 5th through 8th for 34 years and subbed in Kinder through 4th grades for six years. He also took a course in Children’s Literature and, after writing three short stories, quit when assigned a regular, full-length novel that required research, which he felt he did not have time to do because of his full-time teaching duties plus his night-time teaching of English to adults.