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Gogo's Song
Gogo's Song
Gogo's Song
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Gogo's Song

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It is often interesting to know why an author chose to write a particular story.
First, in order for me to explain this reason, I need to tell you a little about my background. I have worked as a teacher, then as a child psychologist in schools, and finally as a lecturer and professor of Educational Psychology in universities.
It is only since my retirement some twelve years ago that I had the time to start writing stories for both young children and older adolescents. Because of my professional background - and particular interest in reading development - all my published short stories and novels have an underlying purpose. And that purpose is to bring to young people reading material that is not only interesting and that they can relate to their personal lives, but also carries with it something that could be useful in their psychological development.
All of my three novels in this Xlibris Corporation series (see the relevant titles of the other two novels below) have an underlying developmental theme and purpose. And this is to provide stories that I hope may help young people deal with the painful feelings and practical difficulties that always have to be faced when someone has lost a loved one.
Perhaps even more important, each of the stories also tells, in its own way, how the main character overcomes and rises above his or her grief and difficulties. In each case, this recovery comes not only from the help and support of one or more friends, relatives, neighbours and teachers but also, significantly, from the determination and courage of each of the main characters.
In order to help you relate these important elements to your own life and perhaps to the lives of other young people whom you may know, I have added two short sections at the end of each book. The first provides you with a number of Questions to think about and the second with a few carefully chosen Activities for you to undertake. Even though it may take a little effort, please follow through on both of the above elements as they will most definitely help you get the most out of each story.
Second, I believe that an author of any fictional story needs to be personally familiar with the place as well as the language* and culture of the people who live there. Without this element, the story will simply not feel authentic or real to any reader wherever they happen to live in the world.
My hope, again, is that this will be true for you.

*In each of my three novels, I have a list at the end of the novel of the English translations, and a guide to the pronunciation of those important names, words and phrases in the indigenous languages that I have chosen to use in the respective novels. I think this may contribute to the authenticity of the stories as you read them. I hope so!

The titles of my other two novels in this Xlibris Corporation series are: I am Thabeka and Woza Thabo!
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris UK
Release dateSep 28, 2012
ISBN9781479710256
Gogo's Song
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David R. Donald

Since his retirement in 2001, David Donald, Emeritus professor of Educational Psychology, has, to date, had 16 fiction books published, excluding 73 translations, focused mainly on a child or youth readership. Each of these individual books provides an engaging story through which such readers can identify with the central character(s) and, in the process, benefit developmentally.

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