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June Rae Wood

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born

September 04, 1946 in Sedalia, Missouri, The United States

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female

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http://mowrites4kids.drury.edu/authors/wood/

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June Wood, the author of the famous The Man WHo Loved Clowns , was born in 1946 in Sedalia, Missouri . "My brother Richard was born [in 1948] with Down's syndrome and a heart defect," author June Rae Wood wrote in the Sedalia Democrat in 1995. "The doctor said he wouldn't live, and even if he did, he would never walk or talk. He advised my parents to send Richard to die in an institution, rather than take him home and let the family get attached to him." Wood, the second of what would eventually be eight children, was only two years old when her parents brought Richard, their third child, home from the hospital. Although her parents gave all their children special attention, Richard, whom Wood's mother called her little "Dickey-bird," was...more

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Books by June Rae Wood

Average rating: 4.27 · 627 ratings · 124 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Man Who Loved Clowns 4.37 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions	My rating:
	When Pigs Fly 4.06 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Turtle on a Fence Post 4.11 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	About Face 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Share of Freedom 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1900	My rating:
	A Share of Freedom by June Rae Wood, Rae Wood 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	My rating: