By Douglas C. Bonanomi
Young Cowgirl Katy and the Sad, Sad Town of Grimleysville
(Currently available from Amazon.com)
This is the story of Miss Katy McGraff, a happy-go-lucky young cowgirl who decides to visit the nearby town of Grimleysville, even after her mother tells her not to go there. “Grimleysville,” Katy’s mother warns her, “Is a town where people are forbidden to laugh” – and Katy is a young cowgirl who loves to laugh. In fact, if she could, Katy would spend the entire day laughing. But Katy is also a very curious young cowgirl, and she wants to see for herself why the people of Grimleysville are not allowed to laugh.
What follows is an adventure on a day when Katy, a happy-go-lucky and curious young cowgirl, takes a bold, adventurous journey to the nearby town of Grimleysville.
Randy the Purple Fire Truck
(Currently available from Amazon.com)
Randy, the Purple Fire Truck, wants to know why he’s different than all the other fire trucks at the fire station. Herman, the big hook-and-ladder truck, tells Randy it is because the people from the factory got the order wrong when Randy was sent there to get painted. This makes Randy sad, and he does not want to take part in the big parade with the other fire trucks from the fire station. This is the story of how Randy learns to accept the fact that he is different than the other fire trucks. And it is also the story of how the other fire trucks learn to accept Randy even though he is purple and not the same as them.
The Dinosaurs Day at the Pre-historic Olympics
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It was two minutes before the official start of the Pre-historic Olympics and Toby, a long-neck Brontosaurus, looked upset. He had lost his javelin, and he needed it for the javelin-throwing contest. His friend Wilson, a Stegosaurus dinosaur, offers to help Toby look for his javelin, all while the Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs are racing around the track, the Pterodactyls are flying overhead, the Triceratops are butting heads, and the Velociraptors are jumping over beds of quicksand. This is a story of how Toby can accept the fact that his friend Wilson might be a better javelin-thrower than he is, and in the end he is happy for his friend’s much rewarded success.
Angry as a Growling Tiger
(Currently available from Amazon.com)
This is an animalistic adventure that taps into the feelings of young boys and girls through the picturesque landscape of various jungle animals and friendly creatures of both land and sea. Follow along the journey to a world of make-believe adventure through the minds of adventuresome boys, girls and animals of every kind!
About the Author –
Douglas Charles Bonanomi has loved reading children’s books ever since he was a young boy spending long summer seasons with stacks of library books at the New Jersey seashore. From The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell to James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl nothing seemed more exciting to young Douglas than breaking open a new adventure that could take him to the far corners of the heavenly universe within a few dog-eared pages. Now he’s a full grown adult author with imaginative adventures of his own to share with whatever young boy and girl readers are curious enough to travel through the pages. And, if you happen to be ready to do that – well then, here we go…!