the ghost of windy hill by clyde robert bulla

Bulla has written over twenty books for children, as well as the music for several children's song books. The book was The Donkey Cart, published in 1946. Within one week, an editor of a New York publisher read the manuscript,and it was accepted. He immediately sent her a manuscript for a children's book he'd written a year before. Bulla, suggesting that he try writing a children's book. Bulla's weekly columns caught the attention of a well-known author and illustrator of children's books. For several years, he worked at a local weekly newspaper where he struggled with linotype, kept books, collected bills, and wrote a weekly column.Ī couple of Mr. His luck took a turn for the worse when the publisher of his first book went bankrupt. Unfortunately, no one wanted to publish them. In the excitement of publishing a novel, Mr. Bulla wrote a novel and a publisher accepted it. Bulla sold a magazine story, then several more. After years of gathering editor's rejection slips, Mr. Bulla continued to write stories mostly, but plays and poetry, too. Bulla's first piece of writing was titled, “How Planets Were Born.” The ambitious opening sentence was, “One night old Mother Moon had a million babies.” All through school, Mr. Bulla, “is a desk or other flat surface on which to write my stories!” His classmates laughed heartily, and his teacher was puzzled. Young Clyde answered that he would buy a table. One day his teacher asked each first grade student what he or she would do with a thousand dollars.

Bulla's first school was a one-room country schoolhouse. Born on a farm in a small town in Missouri, Mr.

Almost as far back as he can remember, Clyde Robert Bulla wanted to write.

The ghost of windy hill by clyde robert bulla