About
Genta Sebastian lives with her wife in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, near their two daughters and four grandchildren. A retired professional storyteller and public school teacher, Ms. Sebastian has decades of experience entertaining audiences of all ages. The year she lived as a gypsy, traveling in an RV around the continental US meeting people from all walks of life, introduced an even greater breadth and depth to her characters and settings. Ms. Sebastian’s stories about living in a rainbow family bring her unique perspective to emotional, social, and personal issues, offering hope and healing with humanity and laughter. Her books include: * The Boxer Rebellion - A teen boy, identified as gay, fights for his life when one of the school bullies becomes a psychotic killer. (YA novel with mature subject matter) * Riding the Rainbow - Lily has got two Moms who live out, loud and proud, and Clara has two Dads living in the closet. When Clara is kidnapped, Lily knows she must help rescue her friend. (For middle-grade readers) * A Man's Man - When forced to live with his gay father and his boyfriend, R.J. devises a plan to turn his father straight. YA novel. (Expected publication date Winter 2014) Contact the author at gentasebastian@outlook.com or visit her blog http://gentasebastian.blogspot.com/
Description
<p><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Santa’s Birthday Gift was written in response to a grandchild’s question, after reading the story of the Nativity.<span> </span>She asked, “But where’s Santa?”<span> </span>This story tells the story of the Nativity and then goes on to tell the story about how when Jesus is born, Santa sees the star at the North Pole and travels to see the baby. Since he is a toymaker, he brings his bag of toys - and offers them to the Christ Child, and then to all the people of the town. His birthday gift to Jesus is a promise to bring gifts to all good boys and girls each year on the Christ Child's birthday</span></p>
Story Behind The Book
Rosie O'Donnell's oldest son, Parker, was only ten or eleven years old when he started asking his mother some hard questions, which she shared with her talk show's viewers. "Do you have to be gay? Does that mean I'm gay?" At the time, my granddaughter was three years old and had come to live with us.
Having two lesbian grandmothers, it was clear she was going to grow up in a rainbow family, so I took some of Parker's questions and wrote Riding The Rainbow.
When my granddaughter got to the age to ask difficult questions, I was prepared. I gave her the book I wrote for her, and she loved it. She couldn't decide if she related more to Clara, or Lily, and eventually decided she was a little of both.
