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Award-winning Author Publishes Fictionalized Memoirs
O. M. Hubbard (and other nursery tales) by Lillian Reynolds Reeher
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December 1998 - (Sharon, Pennsylvania) - Lifelong artist and long-time teacher, Lillian Reynolds Reeher has collected the best of her fictionalized short stories, based on her life experiences, into an attractive hard-cover book, O. M. Hubbard (and other nursery tales). Reeher has received St. David's Writing Awards for three of the short stories included in this book.
O. M. Hubbard's stories offer stimulating reading with a delightful dose of humor. They compare tales told in the nursery to the reality of life after the nursery. "Nursery rhymes are so cut and dried. Life is not," explains Reeher. The ability to mesh tales and reality enables the characters in Reeher's stories -- adult children -- to develop "the strength of violets." Successfully blending the hopes and fantasies of the nursery with the realities of adulthood creates the perfect bloom: a combination of sensitive, fragile colorfulness with perennial hardiness. Both qualities are necessary for the creation of hardy stock. Reeher's stories may not answer life's great questions, but readers will surely be drawn to reflect on their own frailties and strengths.
Reeher has been a teacher in the public school system, a newspaper writer and editor, and a publications specialist. In addition to writing on a freelance basis, she presently teaches English and writing for the Pennsylvania State University (Shenango Campus), Thiel College (Greenville, PA), and Chautauqua Institute (Chautauqua, NY). Her published works include Wolf Creek Legacy I and II (a history of the Scots-Irish in southeastern Mercer County, PA) and The Cassie Lee Miller Story (a charming story about a unique cat).
The stories in O. M. Hubbard are accented with black-and-white and two-color watercolor illustrations by Reeher. The book's dust jacket highlights Reeher's four-color depiction of the house she named O. M. Hubbard, as explained in the short story by that name. For complete details, call (724) 458-6526 or (724) 327-2361 or log onto to Reeher's Web site (http://users.zoominternet.net/~dwlacey/reeher.htm ). The Web site includes an excerpt from the book.
The collection makes a thought-provoking selection for group discussions. In fact, a free discussion guide is included in orders of 10 or more books. In the guide, Reeher encourages discussion with stimulating questions that reflect her many years in the teaching arena.
Author: Lillian R. Reeher, author, (724) 347-2361, dwlacey@zoominternet.net
Web site: users.zoominternet.net/~dwlacey/reeher.htm
| Order information: | O. M. Hubbard (and other nursery tales) by Lillian Reynolds Reeher
© 1998, 88 pages plus 4 pages for readers' personal notes
$9.50 US plus shipping, ISBN 0-9658100-1-1 |
Diane W. Lacey, editor
Lacey Editing Services
(724) 458-6526
dwlacey@zoominternet.net
http://users.zoominternet.net/~dwlacey/reeher.htm
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