Tattler Tales: Vonnie and Fussy, Girl Reporters

By J Lee Fleming

Imagine getting your weekly newspaper with information provided by eight-year-old reporters. It actually happened once, a couple generations ago. Stories told are based in true events, and embellished with humor and imagination. Sure to appeal to a young person’s heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664214569

J Lee Fleming

Jayne’s third children’s story, with the beautiful illustrations of B J Gerdes. Both women are longtime residents of the beautiful midwestern United States, an area that inspires the art as well as stories. Jayne and Betsy want to provide inspiring and entertaining stories for young people. Jayne’s stories are all based in true events, with a healthy dose of imagination added.

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Francis Church, The New York Sun;

Children’s Letters to God, Hample and Marshall

ISBN: 978-1-6642-1455-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-1456-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020923683

WestBow Press rev. date: 12/03/2020

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Contents

Epigraph:

Dedication:

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2 Spring

CHAPTER 3 The Quartet

CHAPTER 4 The Party

CHAPTER 5 Summer

CHAPTER 6 Expecting

CHAPTER 7 The Shower

CHAPTER 8 Fall

CHAPTER 9 Jerry

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11 Winter

CHAPTER 12 Great Grandpa

CHAPTER 13 The Bad Word

CHAPTER 14 The O Family

Author Biography

Epigraph:

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens

Dedication:

For Mom (based on stories from her childhood in Eleva,

Wisconsin- and yes, she really reported for the paper),

for her grandchildren,

and for Adrian

Thanks to friends Lyla, Marcella, and brother Tom. Blame Maurice for typos,

he lays on the keyboard. A big thanks to the very talented Betsy.

And thanks to Mary Kalimonsky, who taught me a few things.

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CHAPTER 1

It was a time many years ago- so many years that your Great Grandma and Great Grandpa were just young that this story begins, in a little place called Piney Point. Often the grownups there would joke that Piney Point had two pines and no point, but really nothing could have been further from the truth. It was a busy place with lots of interesting things going on.

In this town lived two girls, Vonnie and Fussy. The girls were in the third grade and they both liked going to school and playing with each other and their friends after class. They got along very well, at least most of the time. They went to school in a big red brick schoolhouse that was right across the street from Vonnie’s. It was a good thing Vonnie liked school.

Fussy (or Fuss, for short) wasn’t her real name. It seems she had been fussy as a baby, and somehow that was what everyone ended up