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by Bill G. Morris (Author)
Bill Morris' Notes To a Five-Year-Old is an insightful and caring look at a father's learning, playing, and growing with his daughter of five. Crystal clear glimpses at the fears, truths, and cheerful times of childhood, these short gleaming essays bring you back to the fun and memorable moments we all lived when young and relive through our children. Happy times ahead! "Notes To a Five-Year-Old is a book that I could not put down until I was finished. I was completely and totally captivated. I cried on almost every page. I cried with tears of happiness, sorrow, melancholy. The way the book deals with alcoholism, jail, failure, shame, frustration, and the existential "condition" of humanity was truly masterful. This book is universal in its appeal. I think that this is a book that all parents can relate to. I think all children, which is all of us, can respond to deeply." Pamela Eakins, PhD Author of The American Way of Birth "Notes To a Five-Year-Old is a thoughtful and perceptive view of the forgotten world of childhood as seen through the eyes of a wise and observant father...father joy at its best...a verbal photographic album filled with poetic snapshots of a most special and delightful child who hopefully still lives somewhere in each of us...Morris elevates the commonplace happenings in the life of a five year old to the level of high drama and poetry that often goes unnoticed in the routines of everyday life...a poignant and humorous map of the unfathomable depths of the five-year-old mind that will be helpful to parents and to all those who are lucky enough to enter into the magical world of children." Richard J. Correlli, MD Psychiatrist, Stanford University Whether you bought this book or received it from a friend, this is a gift. The gift of childhood.
Author Biography
Bill Morris is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and author of twelve books. One of Bill's books of which he is most proud is Notes To a Five-Year-Old, a group of essays, fatherly observations, and advice written for his daughter when she was five. He has also published two additional books of family essays, The Red Jacket, essays for his daughter about her mother who was lost to cancer, and Good Morning, Ryan, a book of humor, insights, and vignettes of childhood for his second five-year-old daughter, Ryan Rosemary. His latest book, The Astral Zoo, is a novel that describes the life of zoo animals who live in freedom in the zoo as astral beings, living as animals struggling for meaning in a potentially meaningless place. Bill has published many magazine articles and written as a software columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His books are mainly in the computer field and he's been an acquisitions editor with Hayden Book Company, a trade computer book publisher. His first novel, Grey Goddess, about California mysticism, surfing, and the search for lost spirit, received excellent reviews and praise around the world. Surfing magazine said, "A true but comical depiction of the surfing lifestyle, Bill Morris has hit the lip with his book Grey Goddess!" Grey Goddess has sold in surfing and water-related sports stores throughout the United States and abroad. Reviewers have compared it to Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Golf in the Kingdom, and even Siddartha.
