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The Pink Bouncing Ball

The Pink Bouncing Ball


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Alan Balsam grew up in New York's in the 1940s, a time when neighborhood children rallied around common activities and invented their own fun and games. Looking back on the time and place, he remembers details of his childhood with striking clarity, inviting his readers to walk the streets of his memories as he tells stories about what it was like growing up in this era.

With captivating historical accounts of the Woodhaven and Ozone Park neighborhoods, Balsam explores their beginnings and growth, recreating their mid-1900s rural personality through descriptions and entertaining anecdotes. He also examines New York society at the time, particularly how children interacted with each other to create their own daily adventures.

Masterfully weaving historical events and personal stories into a narrative poem, The Pink Bouncing Ball blends poetry, history, and memoir in one engaging literary experience. Through it all runs an overarching theme: all it takes is a pink bouncing ball to shape a child's imagination.


About the Author:

Alan Balsam grew up in New York City in the 1940s, in Ozone Park, Queens. It was a period that may be called a "Great Historical Divide." Looking backward in the century, we faced three dark abysses: two world wars and the Great Depression in between. Looking forward, there was the hope of recovery and building for the future. His family and the place in which they lived also spanned important sociocultural and geographic divides. The family was descended from immigrants to this country from Eastern Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He lived on the north side of Ozone Park in a suburban area with his parents, Paul and Caroline Balsam, who were born in New York City in the first decade of the century, and brother Joel, but he spent a lot of time on the Balsams' family dairy farm in a semirural area on the south side near Jamaica Bay. As a child in that era, he adventured in New York's developing towns at a time when simple joys, such as the pink bouncing ball, brought children together and shaped their experience of childhood.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780999275900
  • Publisher: Cityscapeworks
  • Publisher Imprint: Cityscapeworks
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0999275909
  • Publisher Date: 25 Sep 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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