![]() ![]() The company said it liked the story, but wanted more adventures than one, so Goldy wrote four more adventures for the book. In the fall of 1998, she ran across it, tweaked it a bit and found AmErica House in a book of Christian publishers. She kept the story in a drawer for 15 years. ![]() She first wrote a story about Periwinkle in the 1980s when her children were young, she said, but she could not find a publisher who was interested. ![]() Goldy, a 1970 South High School graduate, and her husband, Eric, are parents of two grown children. Here are four books that did make the cut, or have survived long enough on the desk that at least an accounting needs to be made, if for no other reason than to clean up the work area around here.Īctually, all four look pretty good, although the audience for each differs considerably.Ĭrab on the go \"The Adventures of Periwinkle the Crab\" (AmErica House, Baltimore, 58 pages, $14.95) is a children's book by Pueblo West author Lynnette Godfrey Goldy. Books begging reviews pile up on the desk (well, actually, it's the authors and publicists who beg the reviews, but they don't pile up on the desk), but there's only a relatively few that we can get to. ![]()
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