BEGINNINGS

by Ellen Galinsky ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 11, 1975

With a newborn naievete which all but the hardest-hearted will overlook--this is a brief account of two small beginnings (Ellen Galinsky's two premature infants). During her first pregnancy Ellen began to bleed intermittently, gave up her job (filming educational documentaries) for bedrest, marking time, and watching the little birds outside--a vigil she converted into her picture book, Catbird. The baby, due to a placental problem, was given a 50/50 chance to survive, and did. Three years later a second pregnancy ran into a different kind of trouble and this little boy didn't make it. Ellen writes openly, unaffectedly about her responses, her husband's, and finally Philip's, to the loss they had to accept. Philip with the untutored simplicity of a three-year-old says it shortest, sweetest and best: ""Once there was a little flower/ And they taked that flower away."" Beginnings--endings.

Pub Date: Feb. 11, 1975

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1975

Categories: NONFICTION