Books published by Annalese Press

Willy The Winsome Wallaby likes to sip tea, stir maple stew, lick the frosting in the fog, splash through starlight, pond and bog. Wants to find a friend like you, to gather bugs and drink the dew.Whimsical and poetic, this is a book for children of all ages.

This story set in verse and prose follows a young imaginative girl and her dog Trixie as they ready their cabin in the woods for the wonder of Christmas and the arrival of the reindeer. Emily busies herself with special projects, Christmas baking, colorful paper cutouts, her book of Polish fairy tales, and crafting little people. All is in preparation for the coming of Christmas eve when Emily and Trixie will bundle up and go out into the snow, looking for the coming of the reindeer.This book touches on perennial values of hearth and home, tradition, goodwill, and the wonders of the imagination.

This collection of poems by award winning author Toni Thomas explores the nature of love, challenges of relationship, family, the hopes we carry, things that threaten to fall apart.The poems grapple with expectation, loss, the ability to sustain beauty in an often turbulent world. At the core of the collection is a search for meaning and wholeness.

This fifth collection of poems continues to explore the themes first introduced in ACE RAIDER OF THE UNFATHOMABLE UNIVERSE, which center on the life of a beloved brother Chris as seen through the eyes of his sister. We sense this shy man’s independent spirit, struggles to conform to society’s dictates, and follow him through back breaking jobs, an impossible work ethic, the downward spiral of drugs he wrestles to contain after the sudden death of his passionate mother. While addressing serious issues these poems celebrate life in all its joy, sadness and complexity

This fourth collection of poems explores the life of a beloved brother Chris through the eyes of his sister. We are introduced to his childhood of potential and tension, his passionate mother and disciplinarian father. We learn of the relationship between brother and sister as his years unfold, his hard working life, his understanding of and care for the marginalized, restless impulses, struggle to find personal meaning and dignity. After the sudden death of his mother Chris’s experimenting with drugs results in a battle between his desperate desire to stay clean and in control of his life and the insidious pull of the drug world, as expressed through the anguished gaze of his sister. While addressing serious issues these poems celebrate life in all its joy, sadness and complexity.The companion volume of poetry, Blue Halo, is also available through Annalese Press.