First Book and First Blog
Hi! Glad you're here!
This is my first blog post... ever. I'm a little nervous.
I really just wanted to tell you a little bit about my new self-published picture book, A Reel Cool Summer.
The book features my three children when they were younger and it's loosely based on what happened one long and boring summer day when they asked, "We're bored, what can we do?" Moms and dads all over the world know what that's like! Well, I answered with another quesstion, "Why don't you make a movie with our old video camera?"
They took off with the camera and throughout the next few days they wrote a script, found costumes to wear and filmed their movie. They even edited it on two VCRs... poor things!
As you can imagine, we loved it (as parents tend to do with anything creative their kids do)! We still have that movie in our collection and really enjoy watching it with them from time to time. It gets better and sillier every time!
In my book I try to capture the feeling of kids being free to pretend and imagine as they wish. My oldest son, Joey, illustrated the book and really captured the quirky nature of the kids. I think both children and parents will enjoy the story. I hope you do!
Thanks for stopping by. Until next time...
Martha
P.S. We're having a book giveaway until August 2, 2011 so click on the below link to enter.
A Reel Cool Summer
This is my first blog post... ever. I'm a little nervous.
I really just wanted to tell you a little bit about my new self-published picture book, A Reel Cool Summer.
The book features my three children when they were younger and it's loosely based on what happened one long and boring summer day when they asked, "We're bored, what can we do?" Moms and dads all over the world know what that's like! Well, I answered with another quesstion, "Why don't you make a movie with our old video camera?"
They took off with the camera and throughout the next few days they wrote a script, found costumes to wear and filmed their movie. They even edited it on two VCRs... poor things!
As you can imagine, we loved it (as parents tend to do with anything creative their kids do)! We still have that movie in our collection and really enjoy watching it with them from time to time. It gets better and sillier every time!
In my book I try to capture the feeling of kids being free to pretend and imagine as they wish. My oldest son, Joey, illustrated the book and really captured the quirky nature of the kids. I think both children and parents will enjoy the story. I hope you do!
Thanks for stopping by. Until next time...
Martha
P.S. We're having a book giveaway until August 2, 2011 so click on the below link to enter.
A Reel Cool Summer
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