Genre: Children's Books Reader Views Literacy Award Winner, The Greatest Wish (An Everchanging Story): This one-of-a-kind children's book taps into the young reader's imagination in an entirely new way by asking the question, If you could be anything in the world, what would you be? Would you fly like a bird or a rocket ship? Would you swim beneath the ocean, like a shark or an octopus? With rhyming phrases moving the adventure forward, the reader is given opportunities to make simple … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: The Greatest Wish by Amanda Yoshida
Things with Wings by Rachael Phillips
Targeted Age Group:: Age 2 years upwards Things with Wings is a lovely illustrated rhyming book all about things with wings! The illustrations are fun to engage even the most fidgety of children. Each illustration has an extra thing with wings for children to find to encourage interaction with the book. The whole family can share Things with Wings to encourage interaction with, and awareness of, the world around us. This is the first book in the Things with... series of illustrated … [Read more...] about Things with Wings by Rachael Phillips
The Gross Gang by Christine Larsen @cdcraftee
An original collection of rhymes celebrating a selection of extremely old-fashioned words that are dying in dusty old Dictionaries on forgotten shelves everywhere. It was challenging, but a lot of fun to take a bypass of this 'fast lane' we travel today, with its universal use of SMS language and acronyms smothering so much of value. I believe this e-book for children will be equally entertaining for any adult who shares it – jogging memories of yesteryears and yesterday's characters. I have … [Read more...] about The Gross Gang by Christine Larsen @cdcraftee
Tall Tales from the Small Folk Clan by Christine Larsen @cdcraftee
Once again, as in the first book in this series, Small Folk Tales, this last and sixth book is another collection of rhymes and this time with a few stories, as well – not a picture book in the traditional sense, but photos and clip-art pics dotted here and there to enhance my words and add to the pleasure. Cute story names include - ‘A First-Rate Feast’ and ‘Missy the Feline Feastress’, and rhymes - ‘Jesse the Rocker’ and the quiet and thoughtful ‘Listeners’. There is something here to … [Read more...] about Tall Tales from the Small Folk Clan by Christine Larsen @cdcraftee
Small Folk Rhymes by Christine Larsen
This is the first in my 'Small Folk Tales' series of e-books. An original collection of poems for wee small folk – to capture and enhance their own wondrously fertile imaginations, it is called 'Small Folk Rhymes'. With names like 'Guppy Puppies', 'One Lonesome Shoe' and 'Echidnas are not Kidding', this cheerful verse will delight small hearts, and even if they cannot read yet themselves, the carefully chosen clipart and photos enhance my words, adding their own brand of quirkiness and charm. … [Read more...] about Small Folk Rhymes by Christine Larsen
Interview with Christine Larsen – Book Author
Author Bio: Christine Larsen is an ex-secretary, wife, mother, grandmother – and a farmer for more than 40 years, now living on a retirement farm in beautiful Australia. Finally she is a self-published author of a series of e-books, after shelving her written creations decades ago, believing that editors' rejections equalled no talent. Christine concentrated instead on raising a family and meeting the various needs of farming, including successfully raising a myriad of animals, nine of which … [Read more...] about Interview with Christine Larsen – Book Author
