About
MaryHitchcock Cone is a fiction writer specializing in short stories and mysterynovels. She began her writing career in mid-life while working for SanFrancisco Supervisor William C. Blake and later in the environmental field onstaff with the Trust for Public Land and NatureConservancy. In 1997 Mary joined a Marin County–based writing group inspired byauthor Anne Lamott, whose members meet weekly to share and critique theiroriginal fiction works. Mary was married for fifty-three years to the late RussellCone, a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner, andraised two daughters. She instilled in her children a strong creative spiritfounded on the idea that living a life of meaning is an art — that each choice,each risk, each moment of love and understanding isa colorful brush stroke on a ever evolving self portrait. She has traveled toEurope, across the U.S., andthroughout California.Mary currently resides in Sacramento, California.
My Little Angel Coloring Book
Description
<p>Does your child have a Guardian Angel?</p><p>Share a day in the life of a little girl whose tiny guardian angel named Angela sits on her shoulder to keep the child safe and guide her through the day.</p><p>Her activities include getting the girl ready for school, crossing the street, being polite and kind to friends, learning her lessons, fastening her seatbelt while traveling, being aware of stranger-danger, praying for her pets, and reminding her constantly that she is loved.</p><p>Once again social values are emphasized in this latest illustrated children's coloring book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon. This is the author's third rhyming children's coloring book.</p><p>Meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books, as My Little Angel Angela guides this child throughout her day.</p><p>The author says, "This book is dedicated to our oldest son, who lost his battle with cancer in August 2021. He is my Special Angel."</p><p><strong>About The Author:</strong> Sherrill S. Cannon is the author of 10 award-winning children's books that have won nearly 100 awards (and counting), including Santa's Birthday Gift, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys, The Magic Word, Gimme-Jimmy, Manner-Man, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, The Golden Rule, My Little Angel and David's ADHD, as well as two award-winning poetry books, A Penny for Your Thoughts, and A Dime is a Sign. Her other two coloring books are Peter and the Whimper-Whineys Coloring Book and The Golden Rule Coloring Book. She is also a playwright, with seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. A former teacher, the author's goal in each of her books is to teach good manners as well as caring for others.</p>
Story Behind The Book
Punctuated with irony and laughter that is balanced by poignant images of lives and loves won and lost, this well-paced book of 10 original stories represents the publishing debut for this 88-year-old short story and mystery novel writer, who began her writing career in mid-life.
Reviews
<font style="color:#000000;font-style:italic;" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="-a">“</span><a>Moose
Mash and Other Stories </a>is a unique collection of 10 contemporary
literary short stories that chronicle with perfect pitch the everyday as
well as the extraordinary events of the world we all live in: ghosts,
sibling rivalry, solitude, difficult love, and war. Author Mary
Hitchcock Cone deftly captures both the passion and the humor that
simmer just below the surface of our modern society." Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Publisher, FolkHeart Press.<br /></font>
