REMEMBERING ME: PORTRAIT OF A CHILD ARTIST

Whether she’s collecting grasshoppers, looking for cats, or trying on her first twirly skirt, Mary has her own way of doing things. You’ll laugh when she’s helping her boy cousin try on her pink silk dress or sometimes cry when her stray cat disappears. Kiraya Kestin’s creative memory of herself paints a vivid picture that will fill your mind with sights, sounds, smells of what it’s like to be a preschooler growing up in the late 1940’s in eastern Washington. In “Remembering Me”, Mary’s parents are completing their last year of teachers’ college. The story told in the first person and each chapter is backed by a poem that the author created for that episode and sometimes a picture.