Luellen Smiley

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Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!

Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!

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<p>Mice &amp; Spiders &amp; Webs...Oh My! Is your child a good listener? Rosemary is a little girl who is worried about returning to school after her teacher warns the class that they would soon have some mice, spiders, and webs in the classroom. Could Rosemary have misunderstood something? How can mice and spiders and webs belong at school? Full of &quot;Computer Speak,&quot; this story introduces young readers to basic computer terms in a delightful way! See if your child can discover the mystery of the misunderstood words, and learn about the fun of computers with Rosemary. This is the seventh rhyming children's book by this award-winning author, whose other bestselling books include My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys, and Santa's Birthday Gift. Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won twenty-eight awards for her six previous rhyming books, and is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called &quot;a modern day Dr. Seuss&quot; by GTMA Review. &quot;I love to teach, and this book teaches basic computer terms in a fun way. I am retired and spend six months of the year with my husband of 55 years, traveling from coast to coast and sharing books along the way. I grew up in The Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. , where my father was the manager. I'm the original Eloise!&quot; Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/SherrillSCannon</p>

Story Behind The Book

One of the most publicized events in Beverly Hills is the subject of my book, the murder of Benjamin Bugsy Siegel. I was born in Beverly Hills and spent the first thirty years of my life in the neighborhood It was a curiosity to me that my father walked every day from Doheny Drive to Linden Drive. When I asked him why he turned around at Linden he replied, “ Concentrate on your life, the Allen Smiley story isn’t for sale.” The memoir began as a compass to my secretive and criminal family history. This is the story of a woman whose survival is wedged between shameless love and immobilizing fear of her father. As Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel’s best friend and business partner from 1937 until his death in 1947, my father, Allen Smiley, acclaimed Ben Siegel. He was seated next to Ben the night he was murdered; a story very few have read. Faced with identity meltdown ten years after Dad died, I implored his friends, associates, historians, FOIPA, Immigration and Naturalization Agency, and Archives of the Department of Justice, to build the branches of my legacy. Along with this irreversible journey, I suffered disgrace, rage, and Dad’s supernatural disapproval as I delved into the FBI files and discovered the family secrets: his gambling addiction, criminal activities, imprisonment, attempt at reformation, and the vendetta the government placed on him for not cooperating as an informant. I could be mute about the subject, or expose what I know because I’ve made the family history mine. Incorporated within stories of discovery are government surveillance records, newspaper articles, court testimony, and criminal activities that defamed his reputation and our family. As the research escalates, the reader is taken inside the transformation of my identity. Once liberated from Dad’s paranormal disapproval of my investigation, the book is written. Dad served the organization until he took his own life in 1982. It’s taken twenty years to publish the book. This is a startling, yet inspirational look inside the struggle of a gangster’s daughter to understand her father’s allegiance to the Mob. I hope you will consider my point of view; men in organized crime bear a life and death-burden as fathers.

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