Larry Good

Biography

Larry Good grew up in Nottoway County, Virginia. Blackstone High School awarded him a diploma, the University of Virginia a B.A., and the College of William and Mary a master's degree in Education.
He played football in high achool, both offense and defense, as number 66. The team won a Regional title. He met the Tackling Dummy on the Practice Field of Blackstone High School.
The first thing after college, he became an English teacher, and before long he had spent most of his time in classrooms. When The Tree of Ticket Leaves takes Meri to The Lands, the first one after The Autumnforest is The Land of Upsidedown Learning. You learn through your feet. (Meri takes off her shoes and socks.) The one after that is The Land of Handwriting Speech. There's no sound when someone speaks, but you can read it. The air of this land is unforgettable.
For a while the author went to work for the C & P Telephone Company. The business office was a large room filled with service representatives at their desks talking to customers on telephones. When the man of the house called, the service representative wrote "mr cld" on her records. From these five letters came The Mistercald River which flows right through the middle of The Lands. You can see it from The Tree of Ticket Leaves, which is in The Land of Pink Windmills.

Books

Another Level of Reality
Price: Free! Words: 58,470. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2016 . Categories: Essay » Technology, Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Cosmos
This is a new discovery of the universe. It's a new discovery of the inside of the universe and a new discovery of the creation of the universe. It's the second discovery of the universe, because now we know what it is all the way through. This is ANOTHER LEVEL OF REALITY and the beginning of understanding what the future will be like This is truly a Revolution in Understanding.
The Turquoise Caboose
Price: Free! Words: 25,260. Language: English. Published: October 30, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Parenting » Childhood development, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Fatherhood
Undoubtedly a very unique book. Nothing like it! A new father writes Letters to his one year old daughter so she'll remember her life. These are the Letters. Everyday events from the twin perspectives of a very little girl and her father as they meet in the context of a new life for both. Unexpected humor joins meaning in this house where there were two---but now there definitely are three!
Letters to a Human Being
Price: Free! Words: 49,820. Language: English. Published: March 4, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Nature
Do you want to know what you are? This book is a new and totally different explanation of humanity. For the first time, it explains the origin of people---and just as important, how people continue to be people. Discover a new level of reality of stars and galaxies and light and heat and---humanity. All of us emerge from particles and depend on particles. This book is How.
The Land of Now and Later
Series: Across The Mistercald, Book 6. Price: Free! Words: 54,110. Language: English. Published: February 1, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
When Meri and her friends deliver the owingstones to The Land of Strawberry Dawn, they have an unforgettable conversation with the strawberries! Nearby, The Land of Firecracker Hail is colorful, dazzling, and frightening. It's time for VERY dangerous weather! Meri, the Tackling Dummy, Wut, Perfit, and Jethro are caught in the middle of the enormous thunderworld. The firecrackers begin falling!
Pumphrey The WaterSpout
Series: Across The Mistercald, Book 5. Price: Free! Words: 42,830. Language: English. Published: January 28, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Meri and her friends are flying above The Mistercald River with their flying wands. First a giant whirlpool, Pumphrey The WaterSpout rises out of the water below. He can't resist approaching the fliers. Perfit is blown out of the saddle and Jethro the Buffalo Unicorn begins falling toward The Land of Wrong Kites. He has only seconds to live! Here comes the grass! What can anyone do?
The Flying Buffalo Unicorn
Series: Across The Mistercald, Book 4. Price: Free! Words: 41,010. Language: English. Published: January 22, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
It's a huge disaster! The windmills in The Land of Pink Windmills are beginning to disappear. The croapfs are attacking again! With sootballs! All you can see of Meri's face is the whites of her eyes. Then she tells Wut that Sticktight has given her the owingstones to deliver to The Land of Strawberry Dawn. He gets a very exciting idea! And soon Jethro the Buffalo Unicorn is flying! Yes!
A Favor for Sticktight
Series: Across The Mistercald, Book 3. Price: Free! Words: 49,540. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Family / General
Meri and Sylvestra visit The Tree of Ticket Leaves. One goes to The Land of Too Shy Izzits. Another to the the Land of Tiny Shiny Chains. Meri meets Sticktight, the most creative talker she's ever heard! He has a special favor to ask. But it means traveling to the other side of The Lands. The Black Sky then floats over The Land of Pink Windmills, shutting off all of its sunlight.
The Land of Walking Through Cake
Series: Across The Mistercald, Book 2. Price: Free! Words: 45,290. Language: English. Published: January 8, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Children’s books » Fiction
Meri, the Tackling Dummy, Jethro the Buffalo Unicorn, and Wut the question mark travel on the monkeybars to The Land of Lavender Thought. Meri and the TD find themselves inside a beautiful cake. Crossing the dazzling Land of Lost N Lightning, they reach The Yellow Trampoline. It's a land too---and they must bounce across it to reach The Land of Pink Windmills. After they jump over a cliff!
The Tree of Ticket Leaves
Series: Across The Mistercald, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 48,380. Language: English. Published: December 22, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Fiction
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Meri misses her trip to England with her parents when she becomes ill. Before they leave, to make them feel better she suggests she may find her own way to England. She doesn't mean it, though. Then she and the Tackling Dummy find a shiny ticket---or is it a leaf? It's from The Tree of Ticket Leaves, and when they accidentally tear it in two, it takes them to The Lands.