The Little Girl Who Loved Birds

By Janet Lee Gasparetti and Veronica Pesek Tuttle

This story is about a little girl growing up in Italy. Her love of birds pervades every part of her life, which includes bullying her siblings for any bread she can get to feed the birds. The story will take you through her life, and you will journey with her through two wars to a new world in America. You will experience her surprising friendship with American birds and her influence on the people around her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781496970602

Janet Lee Gasparetti

My name is Janet Lee Gasparetti. I was born in New York and now live in Tennessee. I was married to my wonderful husband, Donald Gasparetti, for thirty-two years and recently lost him to brain cancer. We had two daughters together: Laura and Angela. After his passing, I was inspired to publish my bird story, which I had written four years ago. Our family has had a love of birds for many generations. My husband was a successful businessman, which allowed me to be a stay-at-home mom. I was voted Girl Scout Woman of the Year. I also opened up a restaurant in California called Gasparetti’s. Now that Laura and Angela are grown, I spend my extra time making toys for my bird (whose name is Derna) and my childrens’ and granddaughters’ birds. I also like to crochet and sew and drive my family and friends nuts wondering what the next thing is that I am going to get involved in.

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Published by AuthorHouse 3/26/2015

ISBN: 978-1-4969-7059-6 (sc)

       978-1-4969-7061-9 (hc)

978-1-4969-7060-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015902767

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The Little Girl

Who Loved Birds

Janet Lee Gasparetti

Do you think a hundred years is a long time ago? You do? I thought so too. Well, a long time ago, a little girl named Maddelena lived in a small Italian village called Croccette (crow-SHEH-tay). It was a very small village near the Adriatic Sea. It had a little village square, if you could call it that. It was actually just a crossroads where everyone gathered to talk and play.

The church parish was on one corner of the square. Across the road from the church was a café where the men would gather to have their coffee. The boys would play football—the kind that we in America call soccer—in the middle of the square. When the men had