Gus

About the Book

GUS is about a boy made of clay who is born to a blended racial family In his make-believe town of Little Clay. The clay people who live there are either blue or yellow, however; Gus Is green because his father is blue and his mother Is yellow. No one wants to have anything to do with him because he is 50 different; but Gus continues to love others and does not become bitter or angry. He chooses love and It pays off In the end. Love never falls.

About the Author

Paula grew up in a lower middle class family the oldest and only girl of six children. She attended Jr. High and High School In a private school where her mother worked in the cafeteria. Most of the other children were middle to higher class, and as we know children can be cruel. As a child she wore those thick "coke bottle" glasses (yeah you know the ones) and she knows what It Is like to be made fun of, ignored, or out casted. This compounded the already inadequate feelings she had adopted by not having her birth father in her life. The one thing Paula always tried to teach her own children was to always love people for who they are no matter what they look like or their status In life; this Is true love. Making someone feel bad for something they cannot change is prideful and mean and did not go along with the topics of teaching In her home: love, humility. respect. obedience, orderliness, honesty, and hard work. Paula is the mother of two boys and has been a foster mother to many other children. She has a desire and passion to teach people to love and serve others more than themselves.