AuthorHouse, Jan 1, 2008 - 332 pages . my parents don't like other people's children. Actually, I don't think they like their own children much. My mom once said if she could live her life over again, she wouldn't have children. Well June, if I could live my life over again, I wouldn't have parents. With these words Willy tugs at the heartstrings of young and old alike. A Kaleidoscope for June is the fictitious journal of baby boomer Willy Velthuizen's coming of age in rural Ontario Canada in the late 1950's. Willy writes about her struggles against the strictures of an authoritarian upbringing with pathos, humor and insight. She is influenced by her education in a one room country schoolhouse, her passion for reading as well as her love of nature and augments this coming of age narrative with songs, poems and recipes of the times. Reading A Kaleidoscope/or June will bring back the late 1950's vividly to readers who lived at that time and bring it to life for those who did not. |
Contents
Section 1 | 9 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 24 |
Section 4 | 38 |
Section 5 | 43 |
Section 6 | 53 |
Section 7 | 61 |
Section 8 | 66 |
Section 23 | 154 |
Section 24 | 160 |
Section 25 | 167 |
Section 26 | 172 |
Section 27 | 181 |
Section 28 | 193 |
Section 29 | 202 |
Section 30 | 207 |
Section 9 | 71 |
Section 10 | 76 |
Section 11 | 81 |
Section 12 | 86 |
Section 13 | 91 |
Section 14 | 97 |
Section 15 | 101 |
Section 16 | 105 |
Section 17 | 111 |
Section 18 | 115 |
Section 19 | 124 |
Section 20 | 131 |
Section 21 | 140 |
Section 22 | 148 |
Section 31 | 211 |
Section 32 | 219 |
Section 33 | 231 |
Section 34 | 237 |
Section 35 | 243 |
Section 36 | 273 |
Section 37 | 285 |
Section 38 | 292 |
Section 39 | 298 |
Section 40 | 303 |
Section 41 | 308 |
Section 42 | 322 |
Common terms and phrases
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