What does Owl 52 Press do, and why should you give a hoot?

After a multi-faceted career in in the magazine publishing business, Richard Lemon found time to write 8 novels, two books of memoirs and 23 books of marvelously whimsical children's stories and poems (written initially for grandchildren). Now retired, he has established Owl 52 Press to publish his works.

The children's books The Bear and the Sky, The Donkey Who Had a Lovely Voice and Dum-de-dum are now available from Amazon.com and can be purchased online. To go there, just click the "Buy" icon on the left. For excerpts from the books, click the titles below.

When you were a child, could you imagine...

	The Bear and the Sky, about a bear who earns peer disapproval by lining high in a tree and looking up.
	The Donkey Who Had a Lovely Voice, in which the talented Heloise gets discovered, goes on an U.S. tour then a world tour, and becomes world-renowned...for a time.
	Dum-de-dum, about why and how the many different sounds of music delight me and, I hope, children.
	Whenever Millie Speaks to Me, a delightful frolicking poem about the kid of wise, down-to-earth person whom every lucky child should have as a friend, at least once. (Available Soon)
	Home, which describes the wildly different sorts of places in which the author feels at home. (Available Soon)

Now that you are grown, do you remember...

Richard Lemon's memoir Pilgrim Love Songs and his full-length childhood memoir "We Go Down to the City Tomorrow," take us back to a simpler time that inspired our fondest remembrances of youth.

	Pilgrim Love Songs, My adult life and career from the New Yorker, Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, The MNY Daily News Magazine (Editor) and interviewing Jack Kennedy, the Beatles, Katherine Hepburn, Billy Wilder, Alexander Calder, Natalie Wood, Duke Ellington, and Sid Caesar to editing at People and Entertainment Weekly.  (Available Soon)
	We Go Down to the City Tomorrow, About my childhood, the beloved summer place of my grandparents, its sudden disappearance and the disappearance of its whole world, how I got turned upside down by these and other events, and how in time I righted myself. (Available Soon)
	Bliss in Space, Civilian astronaut Charles Bunyan Bliss gets blown onto an inhabited, badly-run planet in outer space, gets exiled by its three countries by turns, makes friends and enemies, has lovers, and struggles to return to Earth.  (Available Soon)