Jeannine Gerkman, Author of Children's books, Poet, reviews delightful picture books
Once again, California Writer’s Club will be bringing in local authors to sign and read their books at Barnes & Noble at the Hillsdale Shopping Center. Nine local authors will be participating and I’m one of them! I will be at Barnes & Noble Sunday, June 3, 2018 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Be sure to stop by and say “Hi!”
This morning I was privileged to be at the 10:00 a.m. Story Time at Charlie’s Corner in San Francisco. It is a cozy children-only store with books tailored just for little ones (and their parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles, of course). Their interior is delightful with a huge hollow tree in the corner with a round opening graced with a velvet red curtains for puppet shows.
Elise Filka used her frog puppet to interview me and Jeff played his guitar as we sang a welcoming song, a song about a spider and a song about the sun. I read my book “Spring” and we looked for pink petals and quacked like ducks and picked out swans and fawns and other lovely spring-time things.
After that, I introduced my next book “Armadillos Amble” where we acted out the ABC story of twenty-six animals doing things with the same letter as their names. We ambled and hopped and slithered and ungulated (and learned new words) and then sang the “ABC” song. The half-hour story time ended with a goodbye song and a cloud of bubbles.
One mother said it was the ‘best story time she’s ever attended’.
My book is gracing the Clock Tower Gift Shop at Filoli and February 24, 2018 we launched it with a Book Reading a Signing!
As of December 14, 2017, Spring has now available on Kindle, Nook and I-Book formats, published by Gatekeeper Press. You can buy it for $2.99 or download a sample for FREE. Either way you can sign up to be on the mailing list for my next book.
I am committed to writing books and poetry that add a little sunshine to reader’s lives and providing literature to help those learning to read English to do so with laughter and a sense of fun.
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I have been asked by the principal of Montecito Preschool to bring my book Spring to their annual book fair this November 14th and 15th. So exciting!!!
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What weather we’ve been experiencing these past few weeks! A complete solar eclipse in Oregon. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, Maria with 100+ mph winds cutting destructive paths through Texas, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Cuba, Florida and other islands and states. Hazy skies and spectacular sunsets due to dozens of forest fires. Two major earthquakes in Mexico flattening major buildings and killing hundreds. Record-breaking heat wave with a near or over 100º temperatures in one of the most temperate regions of the Northwest. Lightning, thunder and tropical rain in air that felt like hot breath here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
While mostly dangerous and scary, some of the weather was fun. I joined my sister, nieces, great-nieces and nephew to experience the solar eclipse near Olympia Washington. While it wasn’t a complete eclipse, it was near enough that we were able to feel the drop in temperature, experience the gradual sunlight dimming, hear the silence as birds went to their roosts, see shadows alter as they reflected the crescent shape of the eclipse, and feel the breeze as the moon moved across the sun in the late morning hours of Monday, August 21, 2017. We wore our commemorative solar glasses; did an eclipse art project involving two plates, hole punches, finger paint and a bit of yarn; ate our eggs sunnyside up with blueberry pancakes (big pancake on the bottom, fried egg in middle, yolk-sized pancake on top) for breakfast; and enjoyed banana slices topped with half purple grapes, Starburst and Milky Way candies as our eclipse-watching snacks.
Where were you and what did you experience this last solar eclipse?
I walked into Reach & Teach to buy a scarf the other day and saw my book ‘Spring’ prominently displayed in their Mother’s Day Display! Their store has lots of unique gifts, hand-picked books and delicious fair-trade chocolate. Yumm! What a delightful surprise! Continue reading “Mother’s Day Surprise”
The other day I taught a poetry class at the Young Writer’s Club at the Portola Valley Library. I asked the students to pick a color and describe it with all of their senses. These were children ranging from first grade to fifth grade and they came up with amazing poems. One did an acrostic, another described blue in terms of a velvety dress, another described the taste of green as ‘rainwater’, another picked smooth stones and water as her metaphors. Just delicious! Here’s what I came up with for the color “red”…
Red
Luscious lips lick candy apple
Crunchy, crispy, lip-smacking
Cinnamon, gumdrops, tomato juice
Smooth, silky, sticky, hot
Strawberries in sunshine
Chili peppers in salsa
Red
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