Ruth Silnes has been an artist since her early years. Her life has been full and varied. At ninety three-years-old she keeps learning, and is active doing what she loves to do. At fifty she became a yachtswoman and twenty years later, a writer. At eighty-eight she published “KEEPING AHEAD OF WINTER 4100 Nautical Miles Inside America”, a nonfiction for adults. Now thirteen years later under the pseudonym of Grama Gogo she has illustrated and written ”NAPTIME SECRETS”, a color book for two to six year-olds. Her next book “YOU and THE ARTS?” will be published soon.

NAPTIME SECRETS
Written and illustrated by Gramma Gogo
(pseudonym for Ruth Silnes) :
for two to seven-year-olds

KEEPING AHEAD OF WINTER
4100 Nautical Miles Inside America

Written and illustrated
by
Ruth Silnes: Nonfiction for Adults

“Keeping Ahead of Winter” is a startling account of a unique honeymoon and an insight into the world of the boating community.  

The journey for me was a geography and history lesson.  Viewing the country from the waterside is like a different world than by land.  I was enthralled with the changing scenery, migrating birds and dolphins that played alongside. 

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YOU and THE ARTS ?

Written and illustrated
by
Ruth Silnes: Nonfiction for travelers, educators, artists and art lovers

The book tells of the tremendous power of the arts for society, about its gifts and the benefits for children, the similarities of the arts, creativity and health, advantages for seniors, how artists' minds work, and the arts' connection with mathematics.

YOU and THE ARTS? is a short book, filled with illustrations and written in easy to understand language. It is for travelers, educators, artists and art lovers.