Charles Ghigna |
Charles Ghigna, aka Father Goose, lives in Homewood with his poet wife, Debra. He taught Creative Writing for many years at The Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. Chuck was selected as a contributor for The Twentieth Century Children's Poetry Treasury, a Book Sense Book-of-the-Year finalist. Animal Trunk: Silly Poems to Read Aloud is the best selling children's title we've ever had. Mice Are Nice was chosen as a Book of the Month Club selection.
The Ghignas have collaborated with the renowned illustrator Mary O'Keefe Young to publish Christmas Is Coming! We anticipate this book will become a seasonal classic. Charles Ghigna has written books for Disney under the name Father Goose and his feature Snickers was syndicated in newspapers around the country.
Charles Ghigna's titles include the following:
Love Poems
Halloween Night
A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys
One Hundred Shoes
Haiku: The Travelers of Eternity
Animal Trunk: Silly Poems to Read Aloud
The Best of Snickers
Good Cats/Bad Cats
Good Dogs/Bad Dogs
Love Poems
Mice Are Nice
Plastic Soup
Returning to Earth
Riddle Rhymes
See the Yak Yak
Speaking in Tongues: New and Selected Poems 1974-1994
Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose
Wings of Fire
Christmas is Coming!
The Alphabet Parade
Score!: 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire
Snow Wonder
Rick Bragg in the Movies
Even though you weren’t able to attend the September 26, 2011, sold-out world premiere of Alabama’s Rick Bragg: Out of the Dirt, here’s your opportunity to view the entire movie at home, as well as much bonus footage not seen in the original documentary.
Listen in on distinguished Alabamaians, local friends and family tell inside tales on Rick as a child and award-winning best-selling author. Rick also gives his life’s philosophy in many scenes. Find out about his mother’s poetry; hear his aunt tell of dressing him as a girl when he was a tot. If ever there was a priceless gift, this is it.
You may order the two DVD (22.95) set through our secure, encrypted link Here
We also have signed copies of every edition of every Rick Bragg title ever written. You may view those by Clicking Here
