Ruth Silnes has been an artist since her early yesars. Her life has been full and varied. At ninety six-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 --
Why Art Matters

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

Did you ever wonder:

• Why the arts are essential besides the giving of pleasure?
• What makes an artist function?
• What do the arts all have in common?
• Do the arts really help our health, education and economy?

The answers are in this book

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