Publisher's Synopsis
A Penny for the Boat is poetry as much of events recalled and memory created as it is of fact, a slim autobiography and a first effort with its rough edges left rough and its hopes and fears left in plain view. With the essential dimension and color provided by Sally Arango Renata's illustrations, Cherryl E. Garner's A Penny for the Boat does what it was meant to do--set down in pages some of a life lived so far.