Twinkle, Twinkle, I Love You

by Steve Metzger, Estelle Corke (Illustrations)

From morning until bedtime, the day is filled with magical moments between parent and child.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Storytime

28 pages, Paperback

Published March 3, 2015

About the author

I grew up in Queens, NY in the 1950s with my “baby” sister, Lois. She is now a wonderful writer of young adult novels and nonfiction. My mother was born in Vienna, Austria, and my father came from Brooklyn – an interesting match! My best friends were Neil, Robbie, Krebs, and Paul. I’m still good friends with most of these guys. It was less hectic in those days – no computers, no emails, fewer TV channels (MANY fewer!) We had lots of fun playing ball and listening to records. I’ll never forget when the Beatles came to America – Beatlemania!
After graduating from Baruch College in NYC, I didn’t know what to do with my life. I bounced around doing odd jobs, including taxi driver, dishwasher, and hotel desk clerk. One day, while relaxing in Central Park (OK, I was unemployed), I saw a group of children from a local daycare center. It struck me that I always liked children -- perhaps I could make a career out of something I liked. Eureka! Ever since then, I’ve been involved, in one way or another, with the lives of young children.

I received my Masters in Education from Bank Street College and taught preschool kids for a bunch of years. I loved the childrens' innocence and vivid imaginations. After moving into school administration for a few years, I began working at Scholastic, where I have been ever since.

At Scholastic, I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to write children’s books. The first book that I wrote was "The Dinofours: I’m Super Dino!" Twenty-seven other Dinofours’ books followed. I hope my respect and appreciation for young children shines through in my stories.

Nowadays, I’m lucky to be married to my beautiful and talented wife, Nancy (she’s also a writer). In 1998, we were blessed with a terrific daughter, Julia, who helps criticize my story ideas and lets me play with her once in a while.

And furthermore…any recollections of my life would not be complete without mentioning my grandmother, Mutti. She was an ever present source of love, appreciation, and wisdom.

Reviews

[Tatiana]

A sweet picture book featuring animal parents and babies in various stages of bedtime routine. The illustrations are soft and adorable. The text is lyrical and soothing. The best part for me was sharing it with a tutoring student and her happiness when she knew some of the trickier words!

[Katherine Pace]

I thought this book was really cute. It made little rhyme-y poem of different cute moments between a parent and its child. Every page has an image of an animal pair (one parent and one little child). The page also includes a bed time routine related poem that is something expressing love toward the child. As far as education wise, I would probably only have it on a book shelf in an kindergarten or first grade classroom. It strikes me as more of a book one would read to their child, not just their student.

[Anna]

I sang this to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and let me tell you, I was not disappointed. It is so adorable and so sweet. It rhymes really well as well as does the flow of the song/poem/book. The illustrations are flippin adorable and I can't wait to read/sing this book to my child one day.

I highly recommending singing this to your child.

[Brittany]

Totally cute and a MUST sing!

[Dawn]

4.5 stars. Couldn't stop singing the words to the tune of the song. But it only rhymes with the first stanza of the song. Still very cute.

[Mely]

Such a sweet, sweet book. Full of adorable illustrations and lovable rhymes. I adored reading this as a bedtime story to my little one. Highly recommended!

[Aarvik]

Beautiful read!