Grandma S Seagull Story

I work as a registered nurse at St Paul's hospital. I have 3 grandchildren ages 7 , 4 and 1. I have had this desire to write a book about my journey to Canada. The book would have been about the struggles of my life in South African and how I ended up in Canada. This would have been like opening a can of worms and I had mixed feeling about going back in time. Then it struck me, instead of writing a sad story, why not write something simple , light and easy. The world as I know it is filled with so many sad tales and I would like to focus on the "now" and future. We are surrounded with so much beautify and many of us (myself included) don't have time to stop and look around! My grand daughters inspired me to write this story. When they visit with me , I would take out the paint and we would paint for hours. I told about the seagulls on the roof and one of them even painted a seagull. I did not provide too much details about the seagulls progress because since it's a children's book I found that my grand daughters attention was very short, but when we made up stories that involved them , I had their attention for a longer periods.

"The true story of a one-footed seagull that, for eight summers, flew to a lake in the Adirondacks to visit a young boy and his Granny."--Publisher's description.

There was a time when children used to go to their grandpa and grandma often. In a playful way, they would learn and absorb the beautiful values of life. But today, when everyone is becoming busier, at such a time, it is only the stories which can bring us closer to the future generation. Those moments at night before sleeping, when we and our little ones enjoy the stories together, are invaluable. In these moments, unknowingly, the love between us becomes stronger, and the children learn the first lesson of their lives—the value of beautiful relationships. The attempt has been to see each story through the eyes of a child, and to listen to each story with the ears of a child, and understand it with a child's heart. The effort has been that if there is any word which pricks their innocent minds, then that should not reach them through the medium of these stories. The effort here has been that each story has a positive end, from which the dreams of the children get a positive beginning.

Angela Carter’s work is a collage of discourses and genres. The challenge of finding a critical framework, complex and accurate enough to classify her work, has remained. The spectacular and the pragmatic threads of her texts, framed by extreme seriousness and witty humour are unravelled with the help of a different metaphor, denoting enigmatic spaces, conterdiscourses, borders of otherness – heterotopia. Five novels out of nine, five short stories out of thirty-five, as well as Carter’s two film adaptations are filtered through a term extricated from its medical and geographical roots, which emphasizes the ambiguity, as well as the dialogic interaction of Angela Carter’s often discordant discourses that have kept her at the top of the literary canon.

"The most in-depth, complex, and analytically sophisticated portrayal of Yurok spirituality ever written by an anthropologist [and] the most important ethnographic work about the Yurok in general since Kroeber's work in the early twentieth century."—Les W. Field, author of The Grimace of Macho Ratón "Its description of Yurok religious practice in recent times is both sympathetic and insightful, providing an interweaving series of narratives and interpretations. The author makes an eloquent case for cultural continuity."—Michael Harkin, author of The Heiltsuks

Grandma Tell Me a Story is a wonderful collection of stories that are interesting, fun to read and enjoyable. The book contains stories about animals, magic trees, talking pebbles, hunters and kings. The stories have been written in a simple yet compelling manner that will appeal to children. Each story has been illustrated with splendid pictures that complement the text.

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