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“Busia: School Days on the Farm with My Polish Grandmother”
New Memoir by Leonard Kniffel
Meet the Author / Book Signing
at our Hamtramck Location
Sunday, November 22, 2019 11am - 3pm
*see below details to order your signed, dedicated copy
note: signed copies will ship on Monday, Dec 23
The book chronicles the school days in the life of a young boy and his grandmother on a farm in Michigan in the 1950s.
Kindergarten: A Year of Wondering Why
First Grade: School is Just Embarrassing
Second Grade: Not All Needs are Special
Third Grade: About Time to Laugh
A charming chronicle of four years in the life of a young boy and his grandmother living on a farm in rural Michigan in the early 1950's at a time when telephones and televisions had not entered their lives.
A simple and poignant tale of the bonds between an only child and his loving "Busia," his Polish grandmother.
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Leonard will launch his book with a talk at the Hamtramck Historical Museum
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Meet the Author - Book Signing at our Hamtramck Location, 11am - 3pm
*Order a signed, dedicated copy: make a note in your order to whom you would like it dedicated! Copies will be shipped on Monday, December 23rd.
About the Author
LEONARD KNIFFEL is the author of A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American’s Journey Home. He is currently President of the all-volunteer Polish American Librarians Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Museum of America in Chicago. He was editor and publisher of American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association, until 2011, and creator and publisher of @ your library, the American Library Association’s former public awareness website, which was funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and supported by Disney Book Group and the ALA’s “Library Champions.” Born and raised in Michigan, he holds masters degrees in English and library science from Wayne State University in Detroit. He now lives in Chicago.
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Features
- Hardcover 49 pages
- Dust Jacket
- 2019 Signed By The Author
- Size 6.25" x 9.25" - 16cm x 23.5cm
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