Cindy the Balcony Cocoon: Inspired by a Boy’S Wish to Have a Pet

By Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate and Angel Dela Peña

Cindy the Balcony Cocoon is a charming telling of Anne, an eight-year-old child, living in a big apartment building in a big city high up on a big floor, where no pets are allowed. With the help of Annes father, Anne suddenly has a pet merely due to a potted plant, which Annes father had put on the balcony. The story was written in the 1970s.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524503840

Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate

Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate was born in Kitale of the British East African colony, today’s Kenya, and was raised until school age on a farm with the name Kalua-Estates. She received her basic education in various European countries as well as in a boarding school in Lucerne, Switzerland. Even though Lucerne is in the German Swiss, the school conducted all its classes and communications in French. Her BA and MA degrees were earned at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her Ph.D. studies were completed at the University of California Berkeley and the University of California Los Angeles. She holds an AA degree in creative writing from the Palmer Writer School, at-tended several years of memoire writing through the Monterey Peninsula College, where she had the opportunity to share her writings with fellow students, most of them outstanding writers, and bought several courses in creative writing from The Great Courses. As professor in academia, she has numerous academic as well as creative writings presented at national conferences and published in academic journals as well as in local papers. She is the author of twenty-four books, with two volumes of memoires in the final stages and a novel about a father and son moving to Alaska almost completed.

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