MY FIRST BLOG
This may be short and sweet because I just figured out how to start a blog. I intend to share my adventures from conference to conference, school to school and library to library. Sharing language and building literacy is a passion I have spent a lifetime sharing. Supporting the Arts-in-Education programs across this country is such a pleasure for this storyteller.
After 35 + years as an Early Childhood Educator I know what works and what does not work with young children. They are special, wonderful, inquisitive, sharing, hugging flowers in our vast garden of life.
Stories and songs fill my head day and night and that is why I have recorded three award winning CDs and a DVD - “Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Storytellin’ Fun!” The DVD has been awarded the Kid’s First, Dove and NAPPA awards. It was filmed at my local library with a backdrop created with stained glass…………check out the trailer on my web site and enjoy the fun.
CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE
On Thursday I hopped a plane and flew to LAX, took a shuttle to a wonderful hotel in Beverly Hills, CA for the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators). There are over 900 in attendance and the rooms are filled with information and wonderful people from all parts of the world. This was an area I had no knowledge of but WOW my head is filled with words, words, words and ideas, ideas, ideas!
Working on how to add pictures to this BLOG……….need to find someone who can give me directions.
Early in LA but late in Indiana so I am staying on Indiana time for the next few days. Back home on Monday then off to St. Louis and up to Michigan. Updates on SCBWI later.